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Old 04-19-2007, 11:58 AM
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Location: The 12th State
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Default Towns in North Carolina with unique names

Half Moon

Barker Ten Mile

Aurora

Butters

Conetoe

Harmony

Jaars

Micro

Middlesex

Rhodhiss

Spiveys Corner

Stem

Teachey

Turkey

Welcome

Foxfire

Broadway

Coats

Gamewell

Icard

King

Locust

Mar-Mac

Mountain Home

Plain View

Pumpkin Center

Sawmills

Skippers Corner

Toast
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Old 04-19-2007, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Winston Salem NC
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Don't forget CLIMAX, NC
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Old 04-19-2007, 12:12 PM
 
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Half Moon

Barker Ten Mile

Aurora

Butters

Conetoe

Harmony

Jaars

Micro

Middlesex

Rhodhiss

Spiveys Corner

Stem

Teachey

Turkey

Welcome

Foxfire

Broadway

Coats

Gamewell

Icard

King

Locust

Mar-Mac

Mountain Home

Plain View

Pumpkin Center

Sawmills

Skippers Corner

Toast
Being from massachusetts, middlesex isn't a unique name. We have a county called middlesex. The rest WOW! Pretty darn cool list.
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Old 04-19-2007, 12:12 PM
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Location: The 12th State
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lol that reminded me when President clinton was in office and I was driving home from the coast and I was look we just went by Clinton Middlesex then Climax lol
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Old 04-19-2007, 12:28 PM
 
Location: From WNC, now in Raleigh
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I shouldn't laugh, but I would hate to say that I'm from Gay, North Carolina. I think I would just say Jackson County and leave it at that.

Few other good ones on here.

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Old 04-19-2007, 03:00 PM
 
Location: Wilson
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What about

Lizard Lick, NC subburb of Raleigh
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Old 04-19-2007, 03:09 PM
 
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How about Pink Hill-or Beulah? Those are pretty odd to me.
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Old 04-19-2007, 03:10 PM
 
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sorry thats Beulahville-too funny
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Old 04-19-2007, 03:15 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, home of the NY/NJ refugees
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Tobaccoville. When I first moved here and someone said that is where they were from, I thought they were joking.
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Old 04-19-2007, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC
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I have a long list of odd or interesting NC place names. Here are some of them (I'll try not to post any repeats.):

Seven Devils
Turkey Neck
Duck
Mars Hill
Tar Heel
Cricket
Jupiter
Scotland Neck

Stumpy Point
Piney Green
Bunn
Mulberry
Maiden
Cherryville
Troutman
Pinetops

Bat Cave
Bodie (body)
Mountain Home
Flat Rock
Hiawassee
Sapphire
Wolf Laurel
Young Harris
Bee Log

Hardscrabble
Lickskillet
Bear Wallow
Loafer's Glory
Possum Trot
Rabbit Hop
Half Hell

Monogram
Big Curve
Myrtle Head
Little Prong
Honey Pond
Cool Run
Prosper
Easy Hill
Goose Hollow
Wananish

Red Bug
Little Kelly
Tomahawk
Ivanhoe
Shaken
Brown Town
White Stocking
Register

Shanghai
Fountain
Peru
Outlaws Bridge
Beautancus
Friendship
Perfection
Best
Tick Bite

Honolulu
Black Jack
Egypt
Scotts Store
Golden Place
Old Ford
Walla Watta
Godley Store
Small
Acre
Bear Grass

Grabtown
Republican
Speed
Cremo
Bethlehem
Muddy Cross
Topsy
Savages Crossroads

Goose Pond
Folly Fork
Mud Castle
Gretna Green
Marmaduke
Sims
Crockers Nub
Daddysville
Shotwell
Overshot
Pet Crossroads

Joyland
Few
Bahama
Needmore
Silk Hope
Saxapahaw
Hairtown
Barbecue
Hog Island (not an island)
Manly
Horse Neck
Floral College
Hasty
Moss Neck

Saddletree
Cognac
Old Hundred
Fruitland
Sandy Bottoms
Wind Blow
Candor
Okeewemee
Spies

Cheeks
Cumnock
Ossipee
Topnot
Happy Home
Progress
Light
Handy
Finger
Palestine
Sugarloaf Shores

Chip
Big Lick
Frog Pond
Churchland
V Point
Neatman
Turkey Ford
Love Valley
Call
Vashti
Cansellers

Thankful
Oval
Listening Rock
Warrior
Meat Camp
Soda Hill
Index
Comet
Fig

Cat Square
Sandy Mush
Rattlesnake Lodge
Paint Fork
Democrat
Bowditch
Paint Gap
Day Book
Toecane
Wing

Bandana
Cane
Pigeonroost
Spillcorn
English
Trust
Luck
Jugtown
Sunburst
Retreat
Ducktown

Sega Lake
Seeshore
Canaan
Speedwell
Shookville
Love Field
Pumpkintown

Vests
Suit
Elf
Burger Town
Hothouse
Ogreeta
Grape Creek
Fields of the Wood
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