NC Gazetteer

Cowee

Also known as: Keowee
A Native American settlement in Macon County
… chief town of the Middle Cherokees, destroyed by the Rutherford Expedition, 1776. The mound on which the council house stood is a short distance NW of Franklin in central Macon County. The name is believed to have meant "place of the Deer Clan." Also spelled Keowee.