Nolichucky River

The Nolichucky River is a 115-mile river that flows through western North Carolina and East Tennessee, traversing the Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It rises as the confluence of the North Toe and Cane Rivers in North Carolina and flows westward through a steep gorge, eventually entering Tennessee and dropping through another whitewater gorge. The river then flows northwest and north, paralleled by several state routes, before entering the Ridge and Valley province and continuing west-southwest to the Nolichucky Dam, which impounds Davy Crockett Lake. The dam was constructed in 1912 and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority until the 1970s, when it was retired due to siltation and now serves for flood control and recreational purposes.learn more on wikipedia