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Place Description
Campground, The

SW Gates County approx. 3 mi. NW of Gatesville, the site of religious camp meetings from the 1820s until the early 1900s. Popular with the people from Hertford, Bertie, and Chowan Counties. An artesian well at the site supplied water.

Camping Creek

rises in SW Franklin County and flows NE into Cedar Creek.

Camping Fork

rises in N Mitchell County and flows SW into Right Fork Bean Creek.

Camping Island Creek

rises in central Stokes County and flows NE between Hanging Rock and Flat Shoal Mountain into Dan River.

Camprock Branch

rises in S Macon County and flows SE into Shope Fork.

Camps Store

See Gaston.

Cana

community in N Davie County. Made a post office in 1875 and named for James H. Cain, first postmaster.

Canada Township

SE Jackson County.

Canadian Hole

deep trough just offshore in Pamlico Sound, N of Buxton, E Dare County. Frequented by windsurfers, many of them Canadian. Term also used by N.C. Department of Transportation to describe section of highway 12 subject to frequent washouts.

Canadian Top

peak in W Haywood County, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near lat. 35°38'55" N., long. 83°06'13" W.