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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.

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Place Description
Harmiller Gap

N Yancey County near the head of Howell Branch.
Harmon

community in NW Wilkes County near the head of North Fork Reddies River.
Harmon Creek

rises in S Yadkin County and flows NE into South Deep Creek.
Harmon Den Mountain

N Haywood County between Cold Springs Creek and Tom Hall Branch.
Harmon Gap

N Avery County.
Harmon Knob

N Watauga County S and W of Norris Fork.
Harmon's Crossroads

See Aulander.
Harmony

town in NE Iredell County. Originally known as Harmony Hill because of the "protracted" or "harmony" meetings held there beginning about 1850. Inc. 1874 as Harmony Hill Camp Ground; name changed to Harmony in 1927. A late nineteenth-century academy there became the first high school in the county, 1907. Alt. 993.
Harmony Hill Camp Ground

See Harmony.
Harnet Cove

SW Buncombe County SW of Yellow Gap.