The North Carolina GAZETTEER
A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places
by William S. Powell
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill
Fourth Printing  1978

Abstracts - BARLOW

page 311.
Manteo, town and county seat, on Roanoke Island, Dare County.  Settled 1865.
Inc. 1899.  Named for the Indian chief, Manteo, taken to England in 1584 by Philip
Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, in the service of Walter Raleigh.  Alt.

page 347.
Nuese RIve is formed in Durham County by the juncion of Eno and Flat Rivers.  It flows SE forming in part the Durham-Granville and Durham-Wake County lines; through Wake, Johnston, Wayne, Lenoir and Craven counties and forming in part the line between Craven and Pamlico, and Carteret and Pamlico counties before entering Pamlico Sound.  Named in 1584 by Arthur Barlowe for the Neusiok Indians.  The Tuscarora Indians called the rive Gow-ta-no, "pine in water."

page 513.
Virginnia, the name applied to the American teritory granted by Queen Elizabeth to Walter Raleigh and explored in 1584 by Philip Amada and Arthur Barlowe.  The earliest evidence of the use of the name occurs before March 25, 1885, in Raleigh's seal as Lord and Governor of Virginia which is now in the British Museum.  The name honored Elizabeth, "The Virgin Queen," and was applied in the sixteenth century to the area explored from bases on Roanoke Island. In the sebenteenth century it vcame to be applied to the permanant settlement around Jamestown, and after the granting of the Carolina charter in 1663 it no longer was applied correctly to the territory which was soon to become North Carolina.

page 517.
Wanchese, community on the end of Roanoke Island, Dare County.  Named for one of the two Indians taken to England by Amadas and Barlowe in 1584.
Produces packaged sea food.  Alt. 10

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