community in E Macon County on Cullasaja River. Once known as Sugar Town. The Cherokee word Kul-say-gee meant "sugar" or "sweet."

rises in S Swain County and flows NE into Yalaka Creek.

See Cullasaja River.

rises in SE Macon County and flows NW into Little Tennessee River. Bridal Veil, Dry, and Lower Cullasaja Falls, which see, are on the river. Moses Ashley Curtis, writing from Franklin on September 2, 1829, said that the "Falls of Sugar Town Creek" are "very imposing—nearly as high as Linville."

See Pinnacle.

rises in N central Carteret County and flows NW into Cedar Creek. It is a very short stream.

community in W central Jackson County on Tuckasegee River. Originally named Kullaughee Valley, an Indian word meaning "place of the lilies." Name changed to Painter, for the first postmaster, when a post office was est. there in 1883 (closed 1908). Renamed Cullowhee about 1900. Home of Western Carolina University, founded in 1889. Alt. 2,066.

rises in W Jackson County and flows N into Tuckasegee River.

on the Jackson-Macon county line.

W Jackson County, extends N from Hunter Jim Creek to Webster Creek. Alt. 4,411.