NC Gazetteer

Frisco

Also known as: Stowe's Hills, Trent, Creed's Hill
A community in Dare County
… community on Hatteras Island SW of Buxton, SE Dare County. Known first as Trent, but post office est. in 1898 was named Frisco, perhaps to avoid confusion with Trenton, Jones County. In 1795 three sand hills known as Stowe's Hills were described there. Later the name Creed's Hill was applied to a single large sand hill S of Frisco.