A place to discuss North Carolina's cartographic history
Freydeck suddenly appeared west of the Blue Ridge (in current day Ashe County) on several English and French maps of North America published in 1755. By the end of the 18th Century, Freydeck was gone. What is the origin of this extinct North Carolina place name?
A very rare untitled map of Virginia and the Carolinas was published by Joshua Kocherthal in Germany in 1709. Read more about it here.
Carolana, the original name for what is now North Carolina, wandered on maps from present day NC, to Mississippi, and finally to upstate NY.
Lockwood Folly is one of the oldest permanent place names in North Carolina, appearing on published maps since at least 1673. What is the origin of this unusual place name?