Chattooga River, a designated National Wild and Scenic River in North Carolina
The Chattooga headwaters start near Cashiers as a small stream, but Green Creek is the start of the boatable section.
The Wilderness is named for “Ellicott's Rock,” a rock on the east bank of the Chattooga River on which surveyor Andrew Ellicott chiseled a mark in 1811 to determine the border between Georgia and North Carolina.