French Broad River

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French Broad River

A river rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina and flowing about 340 km (210 mi) north and northwest to eastern Tennessee, where it joins the Holston River to form the Tennessee River.
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It sits on the banks of the French Broad River, tucked deep into the Appalachian Mountains along the state's far west border.
The United Real Estate - Asheville franchise is owned by Debbie Leon and was converted from her previous brokerage, French Broad River Realty to a United Real Estate franchise.
Contacts: Guide Britt Stoudenmire (New and James rivers, Virginia), 540/921-7438, southernmuskyguideservice.com; Guide Mike Woefel (New River, West Virginia and Virginia), 304/634-5434, wvmusky.com; Guide Cory Allen (Melton Hill Reservoir, Clinch River, Tennessee), 931/261-2483, tennesseevalleymuskieauthority.com; Guide Judson Conway (French Broad River, North Carolina), 828/264-6497, ecoflyfishing.com.
The site, approximately 90 acres in the Henderson County town of Mills River-along the French Broad River, 12 miles south of Asheville-will be home to the new production facility, as well as a proposed restaurant and gift shop.
The study was conducted at a satellite site of the Nantahala Outdoor Center located on the French Broad River in western North Carolina, near Hot Springs.
Children and adults alike are encouraged to stop by, don robber waders, and collect specimens from the French Broad River. For more information, contact Ashley Brown at 828-252-8474 ext.111 (education@ riverlink.org) or Benjamin Colvin at 828-665-2492 ext.
Individuals were first collected in the French Broad River in 1988, though none had been found as result of rotenone surveys just a few years earlier (Harned, 1979); Tomljanovich and Saylor, 1989).
For the third time, the Cheese teamed up with Quality Forward and North Carolina Big Sweep to pick up trash and plant native trees along the French Broad River in North Carolina.
The vineyard is located in a valley across the French Broad River from Biltmore House at an elevation of over 2,000 feet.
Hemando DeSoto and Juan Pardo "discovered" the Smokies in the 1500s by following the Great Indian Path along the French Broad River, a route for northern and southern Indians passing through east Tennessee.
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