The Waterways

CANE NOLICHUCKY

NORTH TOE

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Named for Na’na-tlu gun’yi (‘Spruce-Tree Place’), a Cherokee village that once stood on its banks, the Nolichucky River begins its 115-mile journey through western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee right here at Riversong.

At the property’s northeastern corner, Cane River (which passes placidly along the property’s south and east edges) converges with North Toe River to form the headwaters of the Nolichucky. Venturing north a ways and then west through the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Nolichucky traverses

Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests before spilling into Douglas Lake about 40 miles east of Knoxville, TN.

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Cane River

From its origins on the western slopes of Mount Mitchell—the highest peak in the Eastern U.S.—

Cane River meanders northward through the communities of

Pensacola, Burnsville, Cane River, Ramseytown and Huntdale until it joins the North Toe to form the Nolichucky.

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The confluence

of the Cane and North Toe Rivers on the property’s NE corner forms the Nolichucky. Sometimes roiling and powerful, other times more serene, this isolated river is flanked by one of North Carolina’s steepest, most spectacular gorges as it winds through Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests.

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The North Toe ,

a large stream in North Carolina’s High Country, originates between Bald and Sugar Mountains (‘Sugar Gap’) in Avery County. Its original name, Estatoe (pronounced es-tā-tō)— a Native American name for the trade route leading down from North Carolina’s mountains—proved a little too tricky for many folks to pronounce, so it was shortened over the years to Toe.