Wattogee

Wattogee is an old spelling of Watauga, the river that rises among the mountains of western Carolina and flows west into Tennessee. Its headwaters begin near Grandfather Mountain, and the river cuts through wooded Appalachian valleys on its way toward the Holston. Downstream, the broad shallows at Sycamore Shoals became a meeting place for Cherokee leaders and the settlers who entered their country in the eighteenth century.