Chicora
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Chicora may refer to:
- Chicora, PennsylvaniaChicora, PennsylvaniaChicora is a borough in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,021 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Chicora is located at ....
, a borough in Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA- the Chicora meteorite of 1938, which fell in Pennsylvania, United States (see meteorite fallsMeteorite fallsMeteorite falls, also called observed falls, are those meteorites that were witnessed by people or automated devices as they moved through the atmosphere or hit the Earth, and were subsequently collected. All other meteorites are called "finds"...
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- the Chicora meteorite of 1938, which fell in Pennsylvania, United States (see meteorite falls
- Chicora, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Cheshire Township, Allegan County, Michigan, USA
- Chicora tribeChicora tribeThe Chicora tribe was a small Native American tribe of the Pee Dee area in northeastern South Carolina, ranging to the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. Scholars consider them a Catawban group, likely to have spoken a Siouan language....
, a Native American tribe on the eastern border of North and South Carolina - Francisco de ChicoraFrancisco de ChicoraFrancisco de Chicora was the baptismal name given to a Native American kidnapped in 1521, along with 70 others, from near the mouth of the Pee Dee River by Spanish explorer Francisco Gordillo and slave trader Pedro de Quexos, based in Santo Domingo and the first Europeans to reach the area. From...
, a native from this area kidnapped by Spanish explorers in 1521 - CSS ChicoraCSS ChicoraCSS Chicora was a Confederate ironclad ram that fought in the American Civil War. She was built under contract at Charleston, South Carolina in 1862. James M. Eason built her to John L...
, a Confederate naval vessel that fought in the American Civil War - Chicora (steamship), a steamship that sank in Lake Michigan on January 21, 1895, namesake of Chicora, Michigan
- Chicora Wood PlantationChicora Wood PlantationThe Chicora Wood Plantation is a former rice plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The plantation itself was established sometime between 1732 and 1736 and the 1819 plantation house still exists today...
, NRHP in Georgetown, South Carolina