The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-23
FASCINATING PLACE.
NAMES ABOUND I'M
NORTH CAROLINA
friendship. Faith. Hope. Trust.
Luck and Welcome Among
Many N. c. ccmmu-
nifty Names

Looking for an address or post
with place names like Mays Head
Roaring Gap, Bearwalla, Kitty
Hawk, Loafer's Glory, Kill Devil
Hills, or Snow Camp.
Maybe you will like places with
names pertaining to historical
events or personalities-if so
Then consider North Carolina
North Carolina has towns named
for Queen Elizabeth l, Sir Walter
Raleigh, Daniel Boone, Colonial
/. governors, and quite. a few In.
dian chiefs.
If hunting's your hobby, Their
the places you want to see may
! be Beargrass, Banner Elk, Eli
Park, Buffalo Cove, Buck Creek
Meat Camp or Shooting Creek
Bird-watchers could choose be.
tween Birdtown, Swansboro, Phoe.
nix or Eagle Springs.
Collecting minerals and gem.
stones? North Cardinals wealth
4 of mineral resources is acknowl
edged in the names of Zirconia
Gneiss, Brasstown, Gold Hill
Goldsboro, Iron, Marble, Sapphire
Micaville and Hiddenite.
Botanists and students of horti
culture would like Willow Springs
+ Plumtree, Cherryville, Crabtree
Poplar, Cranberry, Spruce Pine ane
Balsam. Or Pinetops, Merry Oak:
and Cedar Mountain.
Those who sigh for the "goot
old days" will regret to learn thai
the community once called Heart.
Desire or Hearts Delight, is nov
Columbia, but be comforted by the
knowledge that Heartsease is still
on the map. They will readily un
derstand, however, why the people
of Bull Scrape changed theil
community's name to Montezuma
and why Frog Level and Sandy
mush residents became discomfort
ed with their addresses. Thess
days, some people forget that thu
post office at Memory has beer
closed.
You could expect to be welcomed
in state which has two commu
mites named Friendship, one call
ed Faith and one called Hope
to say nothing of Trust and Luck
and Welcome itself.
True, there is community call
ed Worry, but it is counteractet
by the light-hearted names o
Whynot and Balm.
Domestic strife has played it
part in naming North Carolina
communities. There's Loafer'
Glory, named by wives of men VIII,
spent their time whiting ant
swapping stories at the villag
store. And there is Old Trap, ;
name derived from it's womenfolk'
term for the store and bar room
which once lured their men. Blu
there's also town named Har
mony, not so very far away from
Happy Valley.
Perhaps some of the men, resent
ed Loafer's Glory and Old Trap
If so, they were pleased with tn
way the community of Matrimon.
got its name. 1t is named for ;
nearby creek which, wrote William
Byrd in 1925, was Scaled so by al
unfortunate married man becaus
it was exceedingly noisy AM
troublesome.
In other places, men have pai'
compliments to members of tn
fair sex by giving their commu
mites names like Maggie, Nellie
Henrietta, Mamie, Olivia, Ruth an
Margaret.
a Indians names-many of Their
beautiful, some of them unpro
nounceable-have been given t
towns, rivers, gorges and noun
tains. Sweetest is Cullasaja, nam
of a river, gorge and town, an
meaning pouring sugar.. Shun
kawakeen, a waterfall, was name
for an Indian princess whose nam
meant FLOWING white mink. Nan
tahala means Gland of the noonda
SUM-, and the Nantahala River i
shaded by a deep gorge whic
makes the name appropriate.
Kill Devil Hills, site of tn
Wright Brothers first powere
airplane flight, is said to have bee
named for an alcoholic beverag
strong enough to "kill the devil
The name of Kitty Hawk, tn
coastal community famous as tn
site of the glider experiment
which led to Wright's conquest o
the air, has an obscure origin
Some say it developed from tn