Gowtano

Gowtano, “pine in water,” was the Tuscarora name for the Neuse River. Formed by the Eno and Flat rivers in the Carolina Piedmont, it flows southeast to Pamlico Sound. Tuscarora communities lived along the Neuse and other rivers of the region. In Meherrin tradition, ancestors of the Tuscarora and Meherrin settled near its mouth after a journey south from the lands of the northern Haudenosaunee.

The later city of Raleigh lies here.