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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| 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. |
