page_title: Chilhowee (Cherokee town)
hierarchical_section_title: Chilhowee (Cherokee town)
caption_attribution_description: Detail of Henry Timberlake's 1765 "Draught of the Cherokee Country," showing the location and layout of the Cherokee town of Chilhowee. The Chilhowee site is now submerged under Chilhowee Lake on modern-day border between Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.
context_page_description: Chilhowee was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern Woodlands. Although now submerged by the Chilhowee Lake impoundment of the Little Tennessee River, the Chilhowee site was home to a substantial 18th-century Overhill Cherokee village and may have been the site of the Creek village "Chalahume" visited by Spanish explorer Juan Pardo in 1567.
  Although Chilhowee was destroyed by Euro-American frontiersmen in the late 18th century, the village's name is still used for various entities throughout East Tennessee. Along with Chilhowee Dam and its reservoir, places and entities named after Chilhowee include a mountain, a geologic formation, several churches and schools, and a park and neighborhood in Knoxville.
context_section_description: Chilhowee was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern Woodlands.  Although now submerged by the Chilhowee Lake impoundment of the Little Tennessee River, the Chilhowee site was home to a substantial 18th-century Overhill Cherokee village and may have been the site of the Creek village "Chalahume" visited by Spanish explorer Juan Pardo in 1567.
  Although Chilhowee was destroyed by Euro-American frontiersmen in the late 18th century, the village's name is still used for various entities throughout East Tennessee.  Along with Chilhowee Dam and its reservoir, places and entities named after Chilhowee include a mountain, a geologic formation, several churches and schools, and a park and neighborhood in Knoxville.
caption: Chilhowee on Henry Timberlake's 1762 "Draught of the Cherokee Country"
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