| Carolina | was named by King Charles II of England in his own honor in the charter that he granted in 1663 to eight Lords Proprietors. It was applied to the region between Florida and the Virginia colony extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. See also Carolana. |
| Carolina Bays | oval-shaped lakes, swamps, pocosins, savannahs, and peat beds in SE North Carolina, E South Carolina, and NE Georgia. Several explanations have been advanced as to the origin of the Carolina Bays, but the most generally accepted one is that they were formed thousands of years ago by a shower of meteorites. White Lake, Jones Lake, Singletary Lake, and Lake Waccamaw are Carolina Bays. There also are numerous others, many of which no longer contain water. |
| Carolina Beach | town in SE New Hanover County on the Atlantic Ocean. Alt. 5. Settled about 1885; inc. 1925. Sugar Loaf, a former community at or near the site, was the scene of an engagement between Confederate and Union forces after the capitulation of Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865. |
| Carolina Beach Inlet | SE New Hanover County, an artificially created inlet from the Atlantic Ocean through the barrier bar about 2½ mi. N of the town of Carolina Beach. A dredged channel extends from the inlet to the Intra-coastal Waterway. |
| Carolina City | was laid out in 1855 in S central Carteret County by Carolina City Land Company to be terminal point of Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. Opening of Morehead City on adjacent land to the E and the coming of the Civil War brought about its demise. Union army camped at the site for 3 years and afterward the State Guard trained there. See Camp Glenn. |
| Carolina Island | See Conine Island. |
| Carolina Power Lake | NW Person and NE Caswell Counties on Hyco River. Formed in 1964 by the construction of Hyco Dam by Carolina Power and Light Company to condense turbine exhaust steam at its electricity-generating plant there. The lake is approx. 10 mi. long and covers 3,750 acres. It is also used for public recreation. Sometimes referred to as Roxboro Lake and Hyco Lake. |
| Carolina River | See Albemarle Sound. |
| Carolina Shoal Beach | extreme S tip of the mainland of New Hanover County between the Atlantic Ocean and the Cape Fear River. |
| Carolina Township | NE Pitt County. |