Lakes, River, Streams in Western North Carolina

LAKES, RIVERS & STREAMS (Historic Accounts)
LAKES
Name	Notes
Lake Adger	See
Lake Fairfield	(1913, Morley, Margaret. In the Carolina Mountains, p.261, 262) (Spalding, Arthur. The Hills O' Ca'liny, 1921.)
Lake Fontana
Lake Kanuga	Owned by the Episcopal Church
Lake Logan	On the West Fork of the Pigeon River about 7 1/2 miles south of Woodrow, NC. Approximately 120 acres in size.
Lake Lure
Lake Norman
Lake Sapphire	(1913, Morley, p.261, 262)
Lake Toxaway	(1913, Morley, p.261, 262)

RIVERS, STREAMS
Name	Notes
Armstrong Creek	(1913, Morley, p.317)
Bear Creek	(1913, Morley, p.329)
Beetree Creek
Big Laurel Creek	(1913, Morley, p. 229)
Broad River	(1913, Morley, p. 94, 98)
Bull Creek
Cane Creek	(1913, Morley, p. 94, 333)
Catawba River	(1913, Morley, p.31)
Cattail Branch	(1913, Morley, p. 313)
Christian Creek
Cold Creek	(1913, Morley, p.287)
Cowee Creek	(1913, Morley, p.267, 268)
Crabtree Creek	(1913, Morley, p.297)
Cullasagee River	(1913, Morley, p.258)
Davidson's River	(1913, Morley, p.134)
Dutch Creek	(1913, Morley, p.360)
Estatoe River	See Toe River
French Broad River	(1913, Morley, p.93,98,121,124,127,263)
Fines Creek	(1883, Ziegler, Wilbur and Ben Grosscup. In the Heart of the Alleghanies... p.30; Also 1914, Arthur, John. Western North Carolina: A History from 1730 to 1913, p. 111),
Flat Creek
Gashes Creek
Grandmother Creek	(1913, Morley, p.340)
Grassy Branch
Green River	(1913, Morley, p.94, 111)
Haw Creek
Hickory Nut Creek	(1913, Morley, p.98)
Hogshead Creek	Source for Maidenhair Falls.
Horsepasture River	(1913, Morley, p.261, 262, 275)
Hiwassee River
Ivy River	(1913, Morley, p.305)
Laurel River (Laurel Fork)	(1913, Morley, p.243)
Linville River	(1913, Morley, p.243, 338, 341, 342, 374)
Little Crabtree Creek	(1913, Morley, p.304, 316)
Little Tennessee River	(1913, Morley, p.258)
Mill River	(1913, Morley, p.358)
Nantahala River
New River	See also the New River web site.
Nolichucky River	(1913, Morley, p.315)
Oconoalufty River	(1913, Morley, p.235, 237, 238)
Pacolet River	(1913, Morley, p.7, 80, 111, 131, 381)
Pigeon River
Pisgah Creek	(1913, Morley, p.291)
Plumtree Creek	(1913, Morley, p.338)
Pool Creek	(1913, Morley, p.98, 99)
Plott Creek	(1913, Morley, p.300)
Richland Creek	(1913, Morley, p.296)
Ross Creek
Sugar Fork Creek	(1913, Morley, p.257)
Swannanoa River	(1913, Morley, p.127, 134, 305)
Sweeten Creek
Tessentee Creek	(1913, Morley, p.271)
Tiger River	(1913, Morley, p.187, 188)
Toe River (Estatoa River)
Tomahawk Branch
Toxaway River	(1913, Morley, p.262)
Tuckasegee River	(1913, Morley, p.249)
Valley River	(1913, Morley, p.278)
Vaughn's Creek	(1913, Morley, p.210)
Watauga River	(1913, Morley, p.361, 363, 369)
Yadkin River


"■■ LAND OF THE SKY." THE NANTAHALA RIVER AND GAP, Southwest from Asheville, some two-score miles away, lies the gorge of the Nantahala River, through which the Murphy branch of the Southern Railway passes for more than a dozen miles. By many this gorge is believed to be the most picturesque and beautiful in Western North Carolina ... " The mountains that shield from the rude northern blast — mute monitors, they, of the ages long past — Like sentinels watc'-: o'er the valley below where the swift crystal streams unceasingly flow. The pure, healthful breeze, the life-giving air, the beauteous landscape, oft new, ever fair, Are gifts that have come from the Father on high; to Him be all praise for ' The Land of the Sky.'" In some sentimental verse the Indian, in passing off the earth, is made to say to his white brother : " Our name is on your waters, you cannot wash it out." Nowhere is this more true than in North Carolina, where one finds the Tuckaseegee, Savannah, Tennessee, Elijay, Cartoogajay, Tuskeegee. Oconaluftee, Stekoah, Tusquitta, Nantahala and kindred others."

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