Eswapuddenah

Eswawpuddenah, the “dividing river,” is a name for the Broad River of the Carolinas, which marked a boundary between Cherokee and Catawba lands. Rising in the Blue Ridge, the river flows south and east through the foothills before joining the Saluda to form the Congaree. Colonial settlers called it the English Broad River to distinguish it from the French Broad, which rises in the same mountain country but flows northwest.