Louise Overton wrote, >BAHAMA, NC > >Bahama, a small community established in northern Durham County. Settled >around 1880 and called Balltown, later renamed after three prominent >families in the area, the Ball, Harris, and Mangum's...BA-HA-MA. Just wanted to add that this is pronounced ba-HAY-ma, not like the Caribbean islands. Elizabeth Harris chlamy@acpub.duke.edu ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line