NC Gazetteer

Hookerton

Also known as: Caswells Landing
A town in Greene County
… town in SE Greene County on Contentnea Creek. Alt. 75. Inc. as Hookerton, 1817, on the lands of William Hooker. Known as Caswells Landing prior to the Revolution for Benjamin Caswell, brother of Governor Richard Caswell. Several early nineteenth-century academies flourished there, and a public library was est. in 1817.