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It is located about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Franklin, the county seat, along either side of Cowee Creek as it flows toward the Little Tennessee River. The district includes the archaeological site and platform mound of the Cherokee town of Cowee, a major settlement until the time of the American Revolutionary War.
The Cowee Valley north of Franklin attracts thousands of visitors annually to its mines, which continue to yield valuable stones. There are also other gem mines located throughout the area. Among the native stones found are ruby, sapphire, and garnets. The Franklin Gem and Mineral Museum is free to the public and is noted for its exhibits. [22]
Too-Cowee (sometimes Cowee) (also Stecoah), was an important historic Cherokee town located near the Little Tennessee River north of present-day Franklin, North Carolina.It also had a prehistoric platform mound and earlier village built by ancestral peoples.
The Mainspring Conservation Trust acquired Watauga Mound and part of its historic town site in 2020, for conservation. It is located north of Franklin along the Little Tennessee River. [19] Mainspring is working with the EBCI and Nikwasi Initiative to preserve this property and have it be part of the Nikwasi-Cowee Corridor.
Marlin King, a volunteer from Pennsylvania, helps to clear mud and debris from Locust Street on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Spruce Pine, N.C. following damage from Hurricane Helene.
The Western North Carolina town possesses the world’s most pure quartz, making its two mine operations essential to the production of semiconductors. Largest Spruce Pine quartz mine restarts ...
Cowee Gap (el. 4,199 ft (1,280 m)) is a mountain pass located between Highlands and Cashiers in the far southern part of western North Carolina.It is located on the Eastern Continental Divide, which also forms the boundary between Macon and Jackson counties, and between the Cullasaja River and Chattooga River basins (in turn part of the much larger Tennessee and Savannah basins) to the west ...
Franklin mine - Franklin; bought by the Quincy Mining Company in 1908; Franklin Jr. mine (originally the Albany and Boston mine; then the Peninsula mine) - Ripley, Houghton County; Halliwell mine - Porcupine Mountains, Ontonagon County; Hancock mine - Hancock, Houghton County Dupuis shaft; Hanover mine - Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County