The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History

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The North Carolina Gazetteer first looked as if it would wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an crucial reference for any person with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers.

This revised and expanded edition adds approximately 1,200 new entries, bringing to nearly 21,000 the collection of North Carolina cities, towns, crossroads, waterways, mountains, and other places identified here. The stories attached to place names are on the core of the book and the for the reason that it has stood the test of time. Some recall faraway places: Bombay, Shanghai, Moscow, Berlin. Others paint the locality as a little piece of heaven in the world: Bliss, Splendor, Sweet Home. In many cases the name derivations are odd, once in a while wildly so: Cat Square, Huggins Hell, Tater Hill, Whynot.

Telling us much about our own history in these snapshot histories of particular locales, The North Carolina Gazetteer provides an engaging, authoritative, and fully up to date reference to place names from all corners of the Tar Heel State.

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