Great Kanawha (pronounced Kanaw'wa), an affluent of the Ohio River, is called New River in the upper part of its course, and rises in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina. It has a course of 450 miles, and is navigable to a fall 30 miles above Charleston, and about 100 miles from its mouth.
Great Kanawha
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 382
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