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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Cape Hatteras |
the easternmost point in North Carolina, is at the S tip of Hatteras Island, SE Dare County. Diamond Shoals, extending into the Atlantic Ocean SE from the Cape, reach to the Gulf Stream at the notorious "Graveyard of the Atlantic." Called Cape St. John on the Velasco map, 1611; Cape Amidas on the Smith map, 1624; and its present name on the Ogilby map, 1671. The word "Hatteras" apparently is an English rendition of the Algonquian Indian expression of "there is less vegetation." Archaeological evidence indicates that the sixteenth-century Indian village of Croatoan may have been located there. See also various entries under Hatteras; Diamond Shoals. |
| Cape Hatteras National Seashore |
est. 1953, consists of the S part of Bodie Island and most of Ocracoke and Hatteras Islands, except the settled areas. First U.S. national seashore, it was authorized by Congress in 1937. Campsites provided. On the Outer Banks of SE Dare and Hyde Counties. |
| Cape Hatteras Woods |
See Hatteras Woods. |
