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Place	Description
Aquone	community in W Macon County on Nantahala River. Alt. 2,950. Settled on the site of Fort Scott, one of the stockades where Cherokee Indians were housed before being removed to Oklahoma, 1838. Name believed to be a corruption of egwanul'ti (by the river).
Arabi	community in N Robeson County served by post office, July-November 1900.
Arabia	community in SE Hoke County.
Arabia	nickname applied about 1860 to the desolate Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Aramancy River	See Great Alamance Creek.
Aramuskeet	described in 1758 as a part of Hyde County: "That Part of the County is a Peninsula, or rather an Island for three Parts of the Year, and can be entered by foot Passengers only in the Height of Summer, and that with great Difficulty for several Miles together. It was formerly an Indian Settlement, and there are at present about 12 Families of Indians, who live dispersed among the Whites, and dress and live like them, but they have still one whom they call the King among them." See also Aromuskek Marshes; Lake Mattamuskeet.
Arapahoe	town in S Pamlico County, inc. 1920. Post office est. 1886. Said to have been named for a local racehorse.
Ararat	community in E Surry County on Ararat River. Named for the river. Alt. 898.
Ararat River	rises in Virginia and flows S across Surry County into Yadkin River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. Named for the biblical Mount Ararat.
Arba	community in S Greene County. Named for the biblical name Kirjatharba (Joshua 14:15).