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Nearby Tusquittee Landing.... TUSQUITTEE "Where the water-dogs laughed" (A Water Dog, sometimes also called mud-puppy, is a type of salamander). 2700 foot grass airstrip. Most people assume the "Landing" refers to the airplanes landing. However, it actually is a carryover from the days where the mules dragged logs down from the forest to a landing on Goldmine Creek. The logs were then moved down the creek to Tusquittee Creek and eventually to the sawmill. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusquittee,_North_Carolina"