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    The Tellico River is a river in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. It rises in the westernmost mountains of North...
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    Belltown, Rafter, Mount Vernon, Rural Vale, and more. The area along the Tellico River was inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous peoples. The historic...
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    The Bald River is a river located in Monroe County, Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest. It is a tributary of the Tellico River. Just before it empties...
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    Tellico Dam is a concrete gravity and earthen embankment dam on the Little Tennessee River that was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Loudon...
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    Calderwood Dam, Chilhowee Dam, and Tellico Dam, and one smaller impoundment, Porters Bend Dam. The Little Tennessee River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains...
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    The North River of Tennessee is a major tributary of the Tellico River. It rises in the Unicoi Range, which are geologically related to the Smoky Mountains...
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    Tennessee River and the Tellico River, a place of indigenous settlement for thousands of years. It was a center of numerous Cherokee towns along the rivers. Vonore...
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    and Tellico rivers throughout present-day Monroe County, Tennessee. These included Chota, Tanasi (the name source of "Tennessee"), and Great Tellico, which...
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  • Obed River Poplar Creek East Fork Poplar Creek Beaver Creek Coal Creek Powell River Sweetwater Creek Little Tennessee River Tellico River Bald River North...
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    Creek Powell River (Tennessee, Virginia) Little Tennessee River (Tennessee, North Carolina) Tellico River (Tennessee) Tuckasegee River (North Carolina)...
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    Great Tellico was a Cherokee town at the site of present-day Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where the Tellico River emerges from the Appalachian Mountains...
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    Situated along the lower Little Tennessee, lower Tellico, lower Hiwassee and upper Tennessee rivers, the Overhill towns rose to prominence within the...
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  • the Little Tennessee River forms Tellico Lake Tims Ford Dam on the Elk River impounds Tims Ford Lake Watauga Dam on the Watauga River impounds Watauga Lake...
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  • River (Tennessee), tributary of the Tellico River Virginia: North River (Slate River), in central Virginia North River (South Fork Shenandoah River)...
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    Tellico Village is an unincorporated planned community, and census-designated place on the western shore of Tellico Reservoir in Loudon County, Tennessee...
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  • River Tellico River Cheoah River Tuckasegee River Oconaluftee River Nantahala River Cullasaja River French Broad River Nolichucky River Cane River North...
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    rivers and major streams are located high in the Unicoi Mountains. The Tellico River rises on the slopes of McDaniel Bald in the southeastern corner of the...
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    The Tellico Blockhouse was an early American outpost located along the Little Tennessee River in what developed as Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee. Completed...
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    1730 shifted the Cherokee center of power to Great Tellico, which was situated along the Tellico River roughly 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Tanasi. After...
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    Tomotley site was submerged by Tellico Lake, an impoundment of the lower Little Tennessee River and lower Tellico River, after construction of a dam managed...
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    camped for the night at the mouth of Cane Creek, along the Tellico River near modern Tellico Plains. On the morning of August 10, some 700 Cherokee suddenly...
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    Tuskegee (Island Town); those on the Tellico River: Chatuga and Great Tellico; and those on the lower Hiwassee River: Chestowee and Hiwassee Old Town. Following...
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    reportedly born in Tuskegee, a town at the confluence of the Tellico River and Little Tennessee River, upriver of the nuclear power plant. He is known for creating...
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    site has been submerged by Tellico Lake, an impoundment of the Little Tennessee River created by the construction of Tellico Dam. Excavations were conducted...
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    lasted two years, during which the Cherokee captured Fort Loudon on the Tellico River in August 1760. A decade later, In May 1775, a group of Delaware, Mohawk...
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    (69 km) National Scenic Byway and National Forest Scenic Byway that connects Tellico Plains, Tennessee, to Robbinsville, North Carolina, in the southeastern...
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    Georgia, the Ocoee, Hiwassee, Upper Bald and Tellico rivers in Tennessee, and the Little Tennessee River in North Carolina. It also crosses Eagle, Hazel...
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    an endangered species during the construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River; the dam project had been authorized and begun before...
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    south to the town of Great Tellico (present-day Tellico Plains), following Ball Play Creek and the Tellico River. At Great Tellico, the Warrior's Path intersected...
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  • Tellico Plains, Tennessee, up the Tellico River. A high trestle was built over Bald River near Bald River Falls. (The railroad up the Tellico River was...
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