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Corinth, Chatham County, North Carolina

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Corinth is an unincorporated community in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. The community is located in the panhandle of Chatham County, southeast of Moncure,[1] on route N.C. 42.[2] It was named in homage to the ancient Greek city of Corinth.[3]

The area near Corinth was previously called Martha's Vineyard.[4][5] When local resident William Avent campaigned to have a post office put in the community, which opened in 1891, he chose the name of Corinth for it.[6][7]

In 1913, a rail station was built at Cornith for a section of new line of the Norfolk Southern Railway running from Varina to Colon. The depot was built near the road crossing at T.H. Buchanan's store.[8] A discussion of the community in a 1925 newspaper article describes it as "quite rugged in contrast with [nearby] Brickhaven. The Norfolk and Southern depot is in a considerable valley or gorge. The several stores are dotted about on separate hills. The merchants of the village are veteran L.H. Mims, E.V. Dickens, and E.S. Marks."[9]

A community center building was built in 1953, at which time a local paper described Corinth as having a population of "100-odd people."[10] The post office was closed in 1956.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Corinth, Chatham County, North Carolina". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ Story, Justin (16 June 2007). Living in Shearon Harris' shadow, The Chapel Hill Herald (and article part two)
  3. ↑ Powell, William S. (1976). The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 120. ISBN 9780807812471. 
  4. ↑ (29 April 1982). New book reflects eastern county history, The Chatham Record
  5. ↑ The Treasury of Knowledge, (5th Ed. 1834), p. 181 (cites Martha's Vineyard as both the island of Massachusetts and as the name of "Town of Chatham County, N. Carolina")
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 (7 July 1961). Corinth Makes Amends - Flag Now Flies Over Postoffice Station, Sanford Herald
  7. ↑ Chatham County, NC Post Offices -- 1785 to 1971, carolana.com, Retrieved 8 October 2026
  8. ↑ (2 July 1913). The R.C. & S.R.R., Chatham Record
  9. ↑ (16 April 1925). [1], The Chatham Record
  10. ↑ (19 Jan 1953). Corinth People Work on Community House, Sanford Herald

Coordinates: 35°34′10″N 78°59′53″W / 35.56944°N 78.99806°W / 35.56944; -78.99806

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