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settlement noun A small rural community of dispersed homesteads, sometimes informally named (as after an originating or prominent family or individual) and not on the map.
1800 Globe Creek Church Minutes 8 bro[the]r Wm Humphries had declared to some of the nabers of good credet that he had Seen a Negroe Man & a White woman together in the in Globe settlement. 1863 Reese CW Letters (March 1) I ust to lov to talk with you when I had Bin gon off any whair in the Settlment. 1890 Carpenter Thunderhead Peak 142 We passed the “Tuckaleech” settlement, consisting of a small store, a church, and two or three houses a half mile apart, and reached Freshour’s at four o'clock in the afternoon. 1939 Greve Tradition Gatlinburg 64 Descendants of the Whaleys live in great numbers in the valley, so many of them in the Greenbrier region that that place is often spoken of as the “Whaley Settlement.” 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) My grandfather, Jesse Palmer, was among the first to come to this place and start a settlement. 1957 GSMNP-23:2:10 They was several houses on up around up on Mill Creek and up in there and on up next to Fork of the River back up in there now where the old Carr Settlement [was]. I can tell you every man that entered land in this country. a1975 Lunsford It Used to Be 36 Some of the boys and girls would come together, and some of the boys from over the mountain on the other settlement would come over.