The river is considered to roughly mark the eastern boundary of the Cherokee homelands in this region, which included areas of present-day northwestern South ...

What we now know as simply the "Broad River" was originally called the English Broad River. The "French" addition to our river stuck and is how it's known and ...

1900-1910. The name French Broad originates with the early white explorers, trappers and traders in the region. Apparently there

The Cherokee called the river “Long Man,” with the tributaries being called the “Chattering Children.” Early settlers called the river the French Broad ...

Its modern name came from early European settlers. Of the two broad (wide) rivers in this area, this one flowed into French territory in Tennessee. Hence the ...

The river was named the French Broad to distinguish it from North Carolina's other Broad River and because the territory into which it drained was held by the ...

Named for a Cherokee Village · Westernmost subbasin of the French Broad River, formed by convergence of North Toe and Cane Rivers and contained in Avery, ...

The English originally knew it as the Broad River—the way it was written on a 1766 "Map of Indian Nations in the Southern Department." By 1776, however, the ...

It flows into an area that was claimed by the French, thus the name “the French Broad River”. The fact that the river cuts through the mountains has given ...