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The Chowan River (cho-WAHHN) [1] is a blackwater river formed with the merging of Virginia's Blackwater and Nottoway rivers near the state line between Virginia and North Carolina. According to the USGS a variant name is Choan River.
Chowan and lower Roanoke drainage basins. North Landing River. Northwest River; North River; Pasquotank River; Little River; Perquimans River; Yeopim River; Chowan River. Wiccacon River; Meherrin River. Potecasi Creek; Worrell Mill Swamp. Hares Branch; Blackwater River; Nottoway River; Cashie River
The Nottoway River is a river in the U.S. State of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina that is 155 miles (249 kilometers) in length. The river begins in Prince Edward County and merges with the Blackwater River to form the Chowan River in North Carolina.
Chowan County (/ tʃ oʊ ˈ w ɒ n / choh-WON) [1] is one of the 100 counties located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,708. [2] Its county seat is Edenton. [3] The county was created between 1668 and 1671 as Shaftesbury Precinct and later renamed Chowan Precinct. It gained county status in 1739 ...
Albemarle Sound (/ ˈ æ l b ə ˌ m ɑː r l /) is a large estuary on the coast of North Carolina in the United States located at the confluence of a group of rivers, including the Chowan and Roanoke.
The thirteen stones Eberhardt purportedly found in Greenville County were added to Brenau's collection, becoming Dare Stones Numbers 2–14. (Hammond's Chowan River stone became Dare Stone Number 1.) The inscriptions on the new stones were noticeably very different from that of Hammond's, with large, mixed-case letters in a loose, rounded style.
In 1585, the Ralph Lane Colony explored the Chowan River at least as far up as present-day Winton. [6] In 1622, the John Pory Colony led an expedition from Virginia to the Chowan River. [7] (Pory was secretary of the Province of Virginia.) In 1629, Sir Robert Heath was granted a patent to settle Carolina. This patent embraced Gates County. [8]
The Meherrin River is a 143.37 mi (230.73 km) long 6th order tributary to the Chowan River that joins in Hertford County, North Carolina. A twenty-foot-high dam on the river creates a reservoir in Emporia.