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Place Description
Ta-loh-na

See Yellow Mountain.

Tabbs Creek

rises in E Granville County and flows SE across SW Vance County into Tar River on the Vance-Franklin county line. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Tans Creek, probably as an engraver's error. For a time prior to 1764, the Granville County Courthouse was located on Tabbs Creek. Tabb's Creek District had 57 heads of families at the time of the 1790 census.

Tabernacle

community in SE Guilford County served by post office, 1880-1903; the mail was sent to Climax after 1903.

Tabernacle Township

W central Randolph County.

Table Rock Branch

rises in NE Swain County and flows SW into Straight Fork.

Table Rock Mountain

NW Burke County in Pisgah National Forest. Alt. 3,918. Summit accessible by foot trail. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Table Mountain. Known by the Cherokee Indians as Namonda

Tablerock

community in NW Burke County.

Tabor Branch

rises in N Swain County and flows SE into Bradley Fork.

Tabor City

town in SW Columbus County. Settled 1886. Inc. 1905 as Tabor; name changed to Tabor City, 1935. Named for Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church. Produces lumber, processed food. Alt. 50.

Tabor Island

in Roanoke River in SE Bertie County at the SW end of Bluff Island. Known by the name since the mid-nineteenth century. Approx. ¾ mi. long and 1/8 mi. wide. See also Purchace Islands.