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Tar Heel geography can be misleading February 7, 2003 - North Carolina geography is confusing. Don’t think for a minute that a town is in the county of the same name. No. No, no, no. Don’t think colleges are in the towns of the same names, either. Lenoir-Rhyne College is in Hickory. Lenoir, the town, is in Caldwell County and Lenoir County is in eastern north Carolina. Catawba College is not in Catawba but Catawba is in Catawba County. Chowan College is in Murfreesboro but not in Chowan County. Go figure. Wake Forest University is not in Wake Forest, it’s in Winston-Salem. Wake Forest, the town, is in Wake County. Lincolnton might be in Lincoln County but Asheville is not in Ashe County. Neither is Rockingham in Rockingham County. The same goes for Washington … not in Washington County. Davidson College is in Davidson but the town of Davidson is not in Davidson. It’s crazy. Jacksonville is not in Jackson County, Henderson is not in Henderson County. Graham is not in Graham County and Cherokee is not in Cherokee County. And don’t think that because a town is spelled similarly to a county that they belong in the same place. Stanley is not in Stanly County. Pittsboro is not in Pitt County. You can bet that neither Greensboro or Greenville is in Greene County. Mount Mitchell, the tallest mountain east of the Mississippi River, is not in Mitchell County. The word that comes to mind about the geography of North Carolina is spooky. That’s why the state has a Transylvania County. Spooky.
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