What is "chilhowee"

Chilhowee has a number of meanings:

• Chilhowee (Cherokee town), an ancient Cherokee village in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee
• Chilhowee Dam, a reservoir and dam development project in Tennessee
• Chilhowee Group, a rock formation
• Chilhowee Mountain
• Chilhowee, Missouri, a town
• Chilhowee Park, a park in Knoxville, Tennessee
• Chilhowee Park (neighborhood), a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee
• Chilhowie, Virginia, a town

Chilhowee was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. 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.