Chuwalee

Chuwalee is an Indigenous name for the Elk River, a tributary of the Tennessee. Rising in the uplands of the Cumberland Plateau, the river winds westward through the southern Tennessee country before turning south and joining the greater river in northern Alabama. Along its course, gravel bars and rocky beds break the current into shallows and deeper pools. The Elk is one of many streams that carry the waters of the interior toward the Tennessee and, ultimately, the Ohio.