This excerpt of Ogilby’s 1671 map, “A new discription of Carolina by the order of the Lords Proprietors,” shows an area named Turkey Quarters, located in what is now Pender County, but at the time, Clarendon County. According to Powell’s North Carolina Gazeteer, the area was named “by Barbadian explorers in 1663 becuase of the […]
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Turkey Quarters – Pender County, NC
Posted in Tar Heelia on November 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
