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Devil's Tramping Ground. The Devil's Tramping Ground is a camping spot located in a forest near the Harper's Crossroads area in Bear Creek, North Carolina. It has been the subject of persistent local legends and lore, which frequently allege that the Devil "tramps" and haunts a barren circle of ground in which nothing is supposed to grow.
UNC Chapel Hill’s Carolina Inn after a snowfall around 1960. The hotel, opened in 1924, is said to be haunted by the spirit of a public health doctor named William Jacocks who lived there for ...
Maco light. The Maco Light was a supposedly anomalous light, or "ghost light", occasionally seen between the late 19th century and 1977 along a section of railroad track near the unincorporated community of Maco Station in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Said to resemble the glow from a railroad lantern, the light was associated with a folk ...
The plantation traces its formation to three land grants of 500, 500 and 420 acres (1.7 km 2) from King George III to Thomas Hepworth, in 1710, 1712 and 1711. The plantation was named "Litchfield" by Peter Simon, with the first reported statement of its existence occurring in his will. The original mansion or "Plantation House" was built in 1740.
Brick House Ruins. The Paul Hamilton House, commonly referred to as the Brick House Ruins, is the ruin of a 1725 plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, that burned in 1929. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 for the unusual architecture of the surviving walls, which is partly based on French Huguenot architecture ...
Located in North Carolina on the Atlantic Coast, the Fort Caswell Historic District encompasses 2 sites, 43 buildings, and 23 structures; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [2] The fort itself was occupied by various branches of the U.S. armed forces for most of the period between 1836 and 1945 and is now a part ...
Diamond City. Fort Dobbs (frontier fort during the French and Indian war) Glenville (town submerged by Lake Glenville, some residents relocated to the eastern edge of the lake) Henry River Mill Village. Judson (submerged under Fontana Lake) Lost Cove. Mortimer. Portsmouth. Proctor (isolated by Lake Fontana and abandoned)