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Art Museum | Asheville-Buncombe
Library | UNC
Asheville |
YMI
Cultural Center
Appalachian
State University |Appalachian
Cultural Museum |Southern
Highland Craft Guild
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FRENCH BROAD RIVER |
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| Near Rosman, North Carolina the French Broad begins its journey and flows in a north-westerly direction some 210 miles until it joins the Tennessee River. Two major tributaries feed the large river in western North Carolina, they are the Pigeon and the Nolichucky Rivers. The French Broad is one of the oldest rivers in the United States and only the New River, in the upper region of the state and the Nile, in Egypt, are older. |
 Rogers Asheville, p. 12 |
| "....It was a species of vandalism to substitute French Broad for Agiqua and Tocheeostee, the former being the name applied by the Erati, or 'over the mountain' Cherokees to the lower valley, and the latter by the Ottari, or 'valley' towns to the upper or North Carolina section below Asheville. 'Racing river' is a literal translation of the term Tocheeostee. Above Asheville, [towards Burnsville] where the stream is placid and winds snake-like through the wide alluvions, it took the name Zillicoah. (1883, Zeigler, Wilbur and Ben Grosscup. The Heart of the Alleghanies, p.18.) | |