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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

 

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