Talk:French Broad River

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Do a simple search and you will find many references to the French Broad being the 3rd oldest river. Can it be proven?--I'm not a geologist.

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Shape-note tune

The river gives its name to the Southern Harmony (1835?) tune FRENCH BROAD. --Haruo (talk) 03:54, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Age of River

If it is true, as is stated in this blog, that the French Broad is the third oldest river in the world, that would seem to me to be eminently noteworthy and deserving of mention in the article. --Haruo (talk) 03:44, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Questionable...

The article contains the highly questionable unreferenced assertion:

"The French Broad River was named by European settlers centuries ago because it was one of the two broad rivers in western North Carolina. The one which flowed into land claimed by France at that time was named the "French Broad River", whereas the other, which stayed in land claimed by England – the Colony of North Carolina – was named the "English Broad River". (The latter was later renamed simply the "Broad River")."

Commons hosts lots of Fantasy maps, which, taken at face value, show France once colonizing most of the USA. Some show France colonizing Rupertland, thus most of Canada too.

I suspect the passage above was drafted by someone who took an unreliable retronym at face value.

This too may be an unreliable source, but what is says sounds credible, to me. https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/External_Influences/french_in_carolana.html It say refugees from France's Huguenot Rebellion of 1625 settled in "Carolana". Isn't it just as likely the River is named for the French refugees?

New France was very lightly settled. Even around Montreal and Quebec City, settlement was light. Settlement in the Great Lakes and Ohio River valleys? Extremely light.

I think neither the existing guess -- name based on a French claim -- and the alternate guess I made, belong in the article without better references. Geo Swan (talk) 19:48, 28 September 2019 (UTC)