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Mingo Falls is a 120 ft (37 m) high waterfall located in the Qualla Boundary—a land trust of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians—near the town of Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the eastern United States. [1] The waterfall is among the tallest in the southern Appalachians. [1]
Mingo Falls – 36.5 m (120 ft) just outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Rainbow Falls – 38 m (125 ft) cascade on the Horsepasture River, Jackson County; Rainbow Falls – 49 m (161 ft) waterfall in Rutherford County; Setrock Creek Falls – 17 m (56 ft) in the Pisgah National Forest; height disputed
Looking Glass Falls is one of the most popular and easily accessible waterfalls in North Carolina. The waterfalls of North Carolina, U.S., are a prominent feature of the geography of the Piedmont and mountain regions of the state, as well as a major focus of tourism and outdoor recreation.
Tsali was born and reared in the Cherokee settlement known as Coosawattee Town (Kusawatiyi).He followed the Chickamauga war chief, Dragging Canoe, from the time the latter migrated southwest during the American Revolutionary War and continuing through the Cherokee–American wars.
The Yellow Creek massacre was a killing of several [note 1] Mingo Indians by Virginian settlers on April 30, 1774. The massacre occurred across from the mouth of the Yellow Creek on the upper Ohio River in the Ohio Country, near the current site of the Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort.
Cascade Falls (Falls Creek) Cascades Waterfall (Craggy Mountains) Catawba Falls; Cedar Rock Falls; Connestee Falls and Batson Creek Falls; Corbin Creek Falls; Courthouse Falls; Crabtree Falls (North Carolina) Cullasaja Falls
Elk Creek Wildlife Management Area is located on 6,004 acres (2,430 ha) [1] east of Wylo in Logan and Mingo counties, West Virginia. The wildlife management area was established in 2008 on land leased by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources from Heartwood Forestland Fund II, L.P. [ 1 ]
Mingo Wilderness is an 8,000 acre (32 km 2) U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Missouri in the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1964. While the public is invited to engage in recreational opportunities such as fishing, hiking, canoeing, and wildlife observation, all uses are ...