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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Talbot |
community in W Wilson County. Post office est. there 1892 but moved a few years later to another nearby community and discontinued in 1902. |
| Talc Mountain |
community in SW Swain County on Nantahala River. |
| Talc Mountain Branch |
rises in SW Swain County and flows SE into Nantahala River. |
| Tali Gap |
in NW Swain County between Pickens Gap and Haw Gap Branch. |
| Talley Mill Creek |
rises in SE Macon County and flows SE into Rabun County, Ga., where it enters Big Creek. |
| Talleys Crossing |
community in E Forsyth County. |
| Tallulah River |
rises in SE Clay County and flows SE into Towns County, Ga., where it enters Tugaloo River. |
| Tally Ho |
community in W Granville County. A post office est. there 1830 was moved to Stem in 1889, and the name was changed. Alt. 500. Named for the traditional call of fox hunters when the quarry is sighted. Fox hunting was a popular sport in the area in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
| Tally Ho Township |
W central Granville County. |
| Tamarack |
community in N Watauga County on Hoskin Fork. Post Office est. 1902 and closed 1966; surrounding community generally known as Pottertown. Named for tamarisk tree. |
