Callamaco

Callamaco was one of the names given to the Tennessee River on early eighteenth-century maps. West of the mountains, the river bends south into Alabama before turning north again on its long journey to the Ohio. The Sequatchie joins it near the river's passage through the Cumberland Plateau. French mapmakers had earlier used other names, including Caquinampo; by the later eighteenth century the name Tennessee, taken from a Cherokee town, had become established for the river.