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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 |
|---|---|
| Cherry Gap |
on the Buncombe-Haywood county line between Grassy Gap and Boyd Mountain. |
| Cherry Gap |
on the Haywood-Transylvania county line on Pisgah Ridge S of Bennett Gap. |
| Cherry Gap Branch |
rises in W Jackson County and flows W into Cullowhee Creek. |
| Cherry Glade |
community in NW Pasquotank County. |
| Cherry Grove |
community in SW Columbus County. |
| Cherry Grove |
community in SW Caswell County. |
| Cherry Hill |
plantation in S Warren County near the community of Inez, the home of George W. Alston. The house built in 1852 is still standing. |
| Cherry Knob |
NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the W side of Jenkins Trail Ridge and at the NE end of Big Fork Ridge. Alt. 4,420. |
| Cherry Knob |
on Cullowhee Mountain in W Jackson County. |
| Cherry Lane |
community in SE Alleghany County, settled about 1838 and named for cherry tree-bordered lane leading to home of Frank Bryan. Alt. 2,810. |
