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Auroville (/ ˈ ɔːr ə v ɪ l /; City of Dawn French: Cité de l'aube) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district, mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, with some parts in the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. [3]
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
The Pungo Unit of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in the southern part of the county is said to have the best public black bear viewing in North Carolina. This part of the state is known for having the world's largest black bears and highest black bear densities [ 5 ] The award-winning NC Black Bear Festival takes place in Plymouth ...
The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
The cemetery is the final resting place of a wide cross-section of prominent Carolinians: authors Thomas Wolfe and William Sydney Porter (better known by his pseudonym O. Henry); former North Carolina governor and Senator Zebulon Baird Vance and his two wives, Harriett Newell Espy Vance and Florence Steele Martin Vance; Farmer and slave owner ...
Buncombe County (/ ˈ b ʌ ŋ k ə m / BUNK-um) [1] [2] is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.It is classified within Western North Carolina.The 2020 census reported the population was 269,452, making it the 7th-most populous county in North Carolina. [3]
Tyrrell County (/ ˈ t ɛər ɪ l / TAIR-il) [2] [3] is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,245, [4] making it the least populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Columbia. [5] The county was created in 1729 as Tyrrell Precinct and gained county status in 1739. [6]
William S. Powell and Jay Mazzocchi, eds. Encyclopedia of North Carolina (2006) 1320pp; 2000 articles by 550 experts on all topics; ISBN 0-8078-3071-2; James Clay and Douglas Orr, eds., North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State (University of North Carolina Press, 1971).