Nolichucky River

Nolichucky River

      river rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina, U.S., and flowing northwest into Tennessee, then west to join the French Broad River after a course of 150 miles (241 km). A dam on the Nolichucky just south of Greeneville, Tenn., impounds Davy Crockett Lake, named for the frontiersman, who was born (1786) on the river near Limestone. John Sevier (Sevier, John), first governor of Tennessee, lived on the riverbank (1783–90) and was nicknamed “Nolichucky Jack.” The river was named for a Cherokee village, and the word probably means “spruce tree place.”

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