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Elizabethtown, NC

Elizabethtown was settled in 1773. It may have been named for Queen Elizabeth I or perhaps just a local young woman that lived there. Whatever the case, the little town has been a site of conflict before, but maintains a peaceful nature now.

In 1781, the Revolutionary War Battle of Elizabethtown resulted in a usurpation of Tory power and the rise of the Whigs. The Whigs drove the English devotees into a deep ravine on the banks of the Cape Fear River. The ravine is known now as the Tory Hole.