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LAKE KEOWEE AREA HISTORY
Around 1540, Hernando deSoto explored the area surrounding what was once known as Keowee Village or Keowee Town, the capital of the Lower Cherokee Indians. Keowee Village was located just across the Keowee River (Oconee side) near the confluence of Crowe Creek and the Keowee River. In 1690, James Moore led a British expedition through the area in search of gold.
Keowee, a Cherokee name, means "The Place of the Mulberry" and "Uk-OO-Na" (Oconee) meant "watery eyes of the hills." This word undoubtedly described the many springs, streams and creeks that drain off the Blue Ridge Escarpment
Keowee Village or Keowee Town was a central "hub" along the Indian trading path that connected Cherokee towns and villages throughout eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northwestern South Carolina with the Atlantic Ocean. It was not until 1835 that the area was ceded to the United States.
In the late 1700s European settlers, mostly of Scotch and Irish descent, migrated to the area.
In 1963, Duke Power Company (a Duke Energy Company, or DEC) formed Carolina Land and Timber Company, which purchased an 83,400-acre tract of land and subsequently announced construction of the Keowee Toxaway Project on January 2, 1965, and began development in 1967. The construction resulted in the formation of 18,400-acre Lake Keowee and 7,500-acre Lake Jocassee, flooding over the old Cherokee village of Keowee. Lake Keowee's source of water comes from a combination of waters streaming from Lake Jocassee and three main rivers: Toxaway, Whitewater and Thompson Rivers.
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