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Gazetteer

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Place Description
Stancell

See Oak Grove.

Standard

community in W Pitt County. Alt. 74.

Standhill Mountain

SW Buncombe County N of Buzzard Knob.

Standing Indian

peak on the Clay-Macon county line. The Indian name was Yunwitsulenunyi (where the man stood). Alt. 5,500. The peak has been called "the grandstand of the southern Appalachians."

Standing Indian Wildlife Management Area

SE Clay County.

Standingstone Mountain

at the junction of the lines of Henderson and Transylvania Counties, N.C., and Greenville County, S.C.

Stanfield

town in SW Stanly County. Inc. 1955.

Stanfield Branch

rises in N Buncombe County and flows W into Dick Branch.

Stanford

See Burgaw.

Stanhope

community in S Nash County. Was site of pre-Civil War Stanhope Academy. Community of Old Stanhope, about 2 mi. w, was a stop on the Raleigh-Tarboro stage line. Named for Stanhope Crenshaw who operated the stage line prior to 1896.