Great Smoky Mountains National Park - a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Cape Fear - a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean

Cape Hatteras - a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina; "frequent storms drive ships to their destruction on Cape Hatteras"

Hatteras Island - a barrier island running parallel to the North Carolina shore

capital of North Carolina, Raleigh - capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina

Asheville - a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains west of Charlotte

Chapel Hill - a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina

Charlotte, The Queen City - the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina

Durham - a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University

Fayetteville - a town in south central North Carolina

Greensboro - a city of north central North Carolina

Greenville - a city in eastern North Carolina; tobacco market

Wilmington - a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River

Winston-Salem - a city of north central North Carolina

Cape Fear River - a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear

Pee Dee, Pee Dee River - a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean

Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States