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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.
Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
"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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Campania |
an estate of 19,000 acres in Currituck, Pasquotank, and Perquimans Counties owned by Thomas Macknight. Being developed at the time of the Revolutionary War. |
| Campbell |
community in N Stokes County near the head of Little Creek. |
