Where In North Carolina Is That And How Did IT Get Its Name?
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- 1.Asey Hole
- A.
(Nash County) Famous shouting match between two families
- B.
(Onslow County) Deep section of White Oak River; Asa Moore fell in there
- 2.Black Ankle
- A.
(Montgomery County) Bogs in the gold mines dirtied the ankles of workers
- B.
(Gaston County) Named for a local tobacco shop
- 3.Cat Square
- A.
(Lincoln County) Unwanted cats and kittens were left there
- B.
(Camden County) Town's ninth name
- 4.Enola
- A.
(Burke County) Alone spelled backwards
- B.
(Harnett County) Enola Wells' birthplace
- 5.Lawyer's Spring
- A.
(Buncombe County) Favorite vacation spot for attorneys in the early 1900s
- B.
(Anson County) Party of attorneys spent the night there and froze to death
- 6.Handy
- A.
(Pitt County) Handy Candy store site
- B.
(Davidson County) New post office was considered handier than the old one
- 7.Pig Basket Creek
- A.
(Nash County) Settler dropped a basket of newborn pigs into the stream
- B.
(Craven County) Big Brisk Creek misheard
- 8.Shakerag
- A.
(Randolph County) Former farm turned furniture mill
- B.
(Lee County) Two men fought there until their clothes were in tatters
- 9.Whynot
- A.
(Bertie County) Shortened from Whynikonot
- B.
(Randolph County) Naming contest, "Why not name it Whynot?"
- 10.Virgilina
- A.
(Granville County) Border town on the NC/VA border
- B.
(New Hanover County) Site of a paper plant
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