town in central Catawba County. Settled 1871. Inc. 1877. Alt. 1,060. Named by Mrs. John Seitz, local resident, for Canova, the Italian sculptor whose statue of George Washington was destroyed by the fire that leveled the capitol in Raleigh in 1831. Produces furniture, lumber, and textiles.

on the McDowell-Rutherford county line. Alt. 2,144.

rises in NW Haywood County on the N side of Cooks Knob and flows NE approx. 1½ mi to join Woody Branch in forming Little Cataloochee Creek.

former site of a gold mine, central Davidson County near Holly Grove community.

E central Davidson County.

community in E Yadkin County served by post office, 1880-1905.

See Whitewater Falls.

See Whitewater Falls.

town in central Greene County on Contentnea Creek. Inc. 1877, but long inactive in municipal affairs. Name derived from the Iroquoian/Tuscarora phrase meaning "fish passing by." Similarly named village of Cotechney (thief; rogue) is 4 mi. upstream.

is formed in W Wilson County by the junction of Moccasin and Turkey Creeks. It flows SE into Greene County across the county and onto the Lenoir-Pitt county line, which it follows into Neuse River. Contentnea is from the Iroquoian/Tuscarora phrase meaning "fish passing by." Formerly known as Great Contentnea Creek, it is referred to in the De Graffenried account of the founding of New Bern, 1709-10. Appears as Great Cotecktney Creek on the Collet map, 1770. Cotechney was an Indian village on the creek banks in present Greene County. Other eighteenth-century references to the stream use the name Quotankney Creek. See also Moccasin River.