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Place Description
Coward Creek

a small tidal stream flowing E through the swampy part of Oak Island into Molasses Creek in SE Brunswick County.

Coward Lake

formed in 1950 in central Jackson County on Norton Creek. Covers 1 acre and has max. depth of 10 ft. Used for fishing. Not open to the public.

Coward Mountain

extends from Moses Creek in central Jackson County NE to Coward Bald.

Cowarts

community in central Jackson County on Caney Fork.

Cowee

chief town of the Middle Cherokees, destroyed by the Rutherford Expedition, 1776. The mound on which the council house stood is a short distance NW of Franklin in central Macon County. The name is believed to have meant "place of the Deer Clan." Also spelled Keowee.

Cowee Bald

on the Jackson-Macon county line. Alt. 5,085.

Cowee Creek

rises in N Macon County and flows SW into Little Tennessee River.

Cowee Gap

on the Jackson-Macon county line.

Cowee Mountains

a range of mountains in SE Swain, E Macon, and W Jackson Counties. The Jackson-Macon county line follows the peak of the ridge.

Cowee Township

NE Macon County.