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community in central Harnett County near the N bank of Cape Fear River.

is formed by the junction of Deep and Haw Rivers on the Chatham-Lee county line. It flows SE along the Chatham-Lee county line and through Harnett County, S through Cumberland County, SE through Bladen County, and along the Columbus-Pender, Brunswick-Pender, and Brunswick-New Hanover county lines into the Atlantic Ocean. It had a succession of names after it was first discovered by Europeans. Spanish explorers in 1526 named it Rio Jordan; a Barbadian colony in 1664 named it Charles River; and between 1664 and 1667, when Clarendon County existed in the area, it was known as Clarendon River. It appears as Clarendon River on the Ogilby map, 1671; as "C. Fear R. or Clarendon R." on the Gascoyne map, 1682; as Cape Fear River on the Barnwell map, 1722; as Clarendon River on the Moll map, 1729; and as Cape Fear River on the Moseley map, 1733, and thereafter on others.

a term applied to SE North Carolina along the Cape Fear River. Appears as Pine Plains on the Ogilby map, 1671.

N New Hanover County.

See Cape Lookout.

the easternmost point in North Carolina, is at the S tip of Hatteras Island, SE Dare County. Diamond Shoals, extending into the Atlantic Ocean SE from the Cape, reach to the Gulf Stream at the notorious "Graveyard of the Atlantic." Called Cape St. John on the Velasco map, 1611; Cape Amidas on the Smith map, 1624; and its present name on the Ogilby map, 1671. The word "Hatteras" apparently is an English rendition of the Algonquian Indian expression of "there is less vegetation." Archaeological evidence indicates that the sixteenth-century Indian village of Croatoan may have been located there. See also various entries under Hatteras; Diamond Shoals.

est. 1953, consists of the S part of Bodie Island and most of Ocracoke and Hatteras Islands, except the settled areas. First U.S. national seashore, it was authorized by Congress in 1937. Campsites provided. On the Outer Banks of SE Dare and Hyde Counties.

See Hatteras Woods.

in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries extended into the Atlantic Ocean from Hatteras Island in E Dare County between the present communities of Rodanthe and Salvo. Appears on the Velasco map, 1611. It disappeared later in the seventeenth century, either through erosion or in a storm. Wimble Shoals, which see, are now at the site. Kenrick is believed to have been derived from the Algonquian Indian word for "sinking-down-sand."

the southernmost tip of Core Banks in SE Carteret County. A lighthouse, coast guard station, and a few summer cottages are there. The De Bry map, 1590, marks the point as "Promontorium tremendum." On the Velasco map, 1611, it is Cape Feare. On the Ogilby map, 1671, it appears as Cape Lookout.