Cheraw (disambiguation)

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The Cheraw were a Siouxan-speaking Native American people of North and South Carolina.

The Cheraw people, also known as the Saraw or Saura, were a Siouan-speaking tribe of indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, in the Piedmont area of North Carolina near the Sauratown Mountains, east of Pilot Mountain and north of the Yadkin River. They lived in villages near the Catawba River. Their first European and African contact was with the Hernando De Soto Expedition in 1540. The early explorer John Lawson included them in the larger eastern-Siouan confederacy, which he called "the Esaw Nation."

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The Town of Cheraw is a Statutory Town in Otero County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 252 at the 2010 United States Census.

Cheraw is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States.

Cheraw, South Carolina Town in South Carolina, United States

Cheraw is a town on the Pee Dee River in Chesterfield County South Carolina, United States. The population was 5,851 at the 2010 census and has the lowest per capita income level of any municipality of 5,000 or more residents in the Pee Dee region. It has been nicknamed "The Prettiest Town in Dixie". The harbor tug USS Cheraw was named in the town's honor.

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