{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} The '''Enoree River''' is a tributary of the Broad River, 85 mi (137 km) long, in northwestern South Carolina in the United States.<ref name="Columbia">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/97/E02697.html |title=Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry |access-date=2006-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051123161934/http://bartleby.com/69/97/E02697.html |archive-date=2005-11-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Via the Broad and Congaree Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Santee River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean.<ref name="DeLorme SC">DeLorme (1998). ''South Carolina Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. {{ISBN|0-89933-237-4}}</ref>
==Route== The Enoree rises in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains<ref name="Columbia"/> in Greenville County about 2 mi (3 km) northwest of the town of Travelers Rest, and flows generally southeastwardly across the Piedmont region, through or along the boundaries of Spartanburg, Laurens, Union and Newberry Counties, past the communities of Taylors and Whitmire and through the Sumter National Forest. It flows into the Broad River from the west in Newberry County,<ref name="DeLorme SC"/> 15 mi (24 km) northeast of the town of Newberry.<ref name="Columbia"/>
==Variant names and spellings== According to the Geographic Names Information System,<ref>{{Gnis|1247680}}</ref> the Enoree River has also been known historically as: *Collins River *Ennoree River *Ganoree The name Enoree is thought to be derived from a Cherokee word meaning river of muscadines.{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}} Linguist Blair A. Rudes alternatively suggested that the name Enoree derives from the Catawba word ''enuree'', which has been translated as 'it is little crow'.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bright |first1=William |title=Native American Placenames of the United States |date=2004 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman |isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4 |page=145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C |access-date=26 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Anthropologist John R. Swanton proposed that the river obtained its name from the Eno who possibly lived on or near it during the prehistoric era.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Swanton |first1=John Reed |title=The Indian Tribes of North America |date=2003 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |location=Baltimore, MD |isbn=978-0-8063-1730-4 |pages=79, 96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpx6WoPz7xIC |access-date=26 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
==Hydroelectric power== A hydroelectric dam at Van Patton Shoals rapids provided power to nearby Woodruff from 1907 until its demolition in 1968.
==See also== *List of South Carolina rivers
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Category:Rivers of South Carolina Category:Rivers of Greenville County, South Carolina Category:Rivers of Laurens County, South Carolina Category:Rivers of Newberry County, South Carolina Category:Rivers of Spartanburg County, South Carolina Category:Rivers of Union County, South Carolina Category:Tributaries of the Broad River (Carolinas)