Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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Camp Polk |
World War I tank camp of 1,600 acres located in Raleigh and named for William Polk, Revolutionary War colonel. Camp had two sections: administrative, housing, and assembly grounds on Hillsborough Street and tank training grounds on Blue Ridge Road. |
Camp Ridge |
mountain in W Avery County. |
Camp Springs |
community in SW Caswell County. Believed to have been named because Cornwallis's troops camped there during the American Revolution. |
Camp Swamp |
rises in S Columbus County and flows SE into Horry County, S.C., where it enters Buck Creek. |
Camp Tuscarora |
Boy Scout camp and lake in S Wayne County S of Sleepy Creek. |
Camp Two Branch |
rises in S Haywood County and flows NW into Middle Prong. |
Camp Vance |
central Burke County, site of camp for state troops, 1861-64; named for Col. Zebulon B. Vance, Civil War governor. Raided by Federal troops in 1864. |
Camp Whiting |
a Civil War training camp at Wilmington, W New Hanover County. |
Camp Wilson |
See Vaughan's Springs. |
Camp Wyatt |
a Civil War training camp in S New Hanover County about 2 mi. N of Fort Fisher. Named for Henry Lawson Wyatt, first North Carolina soldier killed in action in the Civil War, at Bethel Church, June 10, 1861. |