High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nacoochee Mound is a prehistoric earthen mound on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in White County, in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Georgia, at the junction of Georgia Highways 17 and 75. Folklore traditionally stated that Nacoochee was derived from a Cherokee word that means "evening star"; however, it is the anglicized version of the Cherokee version of the Muscogee word for "bear," nokose. In the Itsati (Hitchiti) language, nokose is pronounced, no-ko-she. It is in an area of long human habitation, and was important in the Woodland and Mississippian culture periods, from 100 BCE to about 1500 CE.