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Native North Carolina
The What, Why, and Where of Native American Place Names
Kevin Reynolds

Parkway Publishers
978-1-933251-72-1
$14.95 paperback
6 x 9
200 pages
100 b/w photos
October 2010
North Carolina, Cultural Heritage, Historical

Over 150 sites in North Carolina can trace their names to Native American sources—whether legends surrounding the locations or simply the Native Americans’ names for the places. In this book, Kevin Reynolds attempts to sort through the oral tradition, folklore, and differing versions of how each place received its name to present the most common and/or plausible source. The book, designed as a travel guide as well as a reference source, has photographs of many of the locations to entice armchair readers to actually visit the sites.