Elk RIVER

 

The Elk River rises in the highlands of the southern part of Randolph and Webster counties and flows through Braxton and Clay into Kanawha , where it unites with the Great Kanawha River at Charleston. 

It was known to the Miami Indians as Pequoni , meaning the “ Walnut River " 

The Delawares called it Toqueman; while it was the Tischilwaugh of the Shawnees , signifying “ Plenty of Fat Elk, ” from which meaning the Virginians derived the name of Elk which they gave to the stream .