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Place Description
Alma

See Daystrom.
Almond

community in W Swain County on Little Tennessee River. Inc. 1905, but no longer active in municipal affairs. Named for Bud Almond, donor of original town site. Alt. 1,613.
Almond Township

W Stanly County.
Alora

community in E Buncombe County served by post office, 1900-1906.
Alpha

community in N Rowan County served by post office, 1894-1904.
Alpine

community in S Sampson County served by post office, 1894-1915.
Alspaugh

community in central Forsyth County.
Alston

community in central Warren County. Post office est. there in 1903 but discontinued in 1918.
Altamahaw

community in W Alamance County on Haw River. Founded about 1860 with the establishment of a cotton gin there. Later the site of several textile mills. The community of Ossipee lies directly s. Name of Indian origin, meaning unknown.
Altamont

community in S Avery County. Name means high mountain. Thomas Wolfe adopted name for his fictitious Asheville in Look Homeward, Angel (1929).