Description
Forming in part the common boundary line of North Carolina and Tennessee between the Little Tennessee River near 352745N0835700W and 351330N0841730W, thence southwest to the Hiwassee River.
History
One of the names in common use suggested by Horace Kephart, and approved by the Nomenclature Committees of the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commissions, of Tennessee and North Carolina. This name, which, like Unaka, is a corruption of "Unega," meaning "white," is used in the act of 1789, passed by the Assembly of North Carolina ceding what is now the State of Tennessee to the Federal Government: "...Where it is called Unicoy or Unaka Mountains between the Indian towns of Cowee and Old Chota."