TUCKASEGEE RIVER

river rising in the Blue Ridge (Pisgah National Forest), west of Brevard, in Jackson county, N.C., U.S. The Tuckasegee flows 50 miles (80 km) northwest past Cullowhee, Whittier, and Bryson City, near which it empties into Fontana Reservoir in the Little Tennessee River. Glenville Dam (1941), on a fork of the Tuckasegee, 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Bryson City, impounds Glenville Reservoir. The river's name probably comes from a Cherokee Indian village, Tsiksitsi (meaning crawling terrapin, for the sluggish movement of the waters), that once stood on its banks.