Question: What is the oldest river in North Carolina?
Answer: The French Broad River, which flows through Asheville’s River Arts District, is not only the oldest river in North Carolina, but one of the three oldest in the United States and one of the five oldest in the world.
Bonus info: The French Broad River is older than the mountains it passes through and practically devoid of fossils since no large, complex organisms existed at the time of its creation.
