Rhodo, North Carolina

Rhodo is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina.[1]

History

A post office called Rhodo was established in 1906, and remained in operation until 1916.[2] According to tradition, the community's name is a corruption of "raw dough", a description of a local inn's biscuits.[3]

gollark: You can always use a fake name which isn't *obviously* fake.
gollark: As far as I'm aware the basic principle is just that a force is exerted on current-carrying wires in magnetic fields because the fields interact or something.
gollark: For the first one, the half life is 30 years and the time is 90 years. So it's 3 half lives (90/30) so its mass halves 3 times, so the mass at the end is 1\*(1/2)\*(1/2)\*(1/2)=1\*(1/2)³=0.125.
gollark: It's how long it takes for half of the atoms in a thing of radioactive isotope to decay.
gollark: Just work out how many half lives the given time is, then divide the starting mass by 2 to the power of however many half lives it is.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rhodo, North Carolina
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  3. "Community Backstory". Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.



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