Gazetteer

community in N Durham County. Named for a former hunting club there acquired in 1925 by George Watts Hill of Durham, who turned it into a dairy farm. In 1963 the farm was given to the state of North Carolina by Hill. The large house is used as a conference center by the University of North Carolina; North Carolina State University makes use of the surrounding land, designated as Hill Forest.

community in S Stokes County served by post office, 1876-1903. Also known as Quaker Gap.

rises in NE Alamance County and flows S into Quaker Scrub Creek.

See Quaker.

W central Stokes County.

W central Wayne County, is formed by a crook in Neuse River. Location of a Quaker settlement prior to 1758. See also Goldsboro Cooling Pond.

rises in NE Alamance County and flows S into Back Creek.

community in NW Jackson County on Shoal Creek. The name is from the Cherokee word kwalli (old woman), because an old Cherokee woman, Polly, lived there. Also called Quallatown. Alt. 2,250.

home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Swain, Jackson, and Haywood Counties in Great Smoky Mountains. Est. by the United States after the Cherokee removal of 1838. Covers 63,000 acres and is the largest Indian reservation E of the Mississippi. The reservation is divided into Big Cove Town, Wolf Town, Yellow Hill Town, Paint Town, and Bird Town townships. In addition, a number of Cherokees living off the reservation in Cheoah Township, Graham County, are under tribal jurisdiction. Land is held in common and assigned on a tenant system.

N Jackson County.