Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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Camp Chronicle |
a World War I training camp located on the W side of present S. Linwood Street, Gastonia, central Gaston County. Operated in connection with an artillery range at the foot of Crowders Mountain. Named for Maj. William Chronicle, killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain, 1780. |
Camp Clingman |
former Confederate camp in Asheville (French Broad Avenue near Philip Street), central Buncombe County. Named for Thomas L. Clingman, U.S. senator and brigadier general in the Confederate army. |
Camp Crabtree |
Civil War training camp located approx. 3 mi. N of Raleigh on "Crabtree," the plantation of Kimbrough Jones Sr. |
Camp Creek |
rises in W Stokes County and flows NE into Cascade Creek. |
Camp Creek Bald |
on Madison County, N.C.-Greene County, Tenn., line. Alt. 4,844. |
Camp Creek Mountain |
S central Avery County. |
Camp Creek Township |
N central Rutherford County. |
Camp Davis |
World War II antiaircraft training base at Holly Ridge, S Onslow County. Opened April 1941 and attained a maximum of 60,000 men and women; closed October 1944. Reopened briefly in the summer of 1945 as an air force convalescent hospital and redistribution station. Named for Maj. Gen. Richmond Pearson Davis (1866-1937), a native of North Carolina. |
Camp Fisher |
Civil War training camp near High Point, SW Guilford County. |
Camp Gap |
NW Macon County at the head of Camp Branch. |