Our little valley of Choestoe, where Sunrise Wick & Wash is located, has such a rich history. Choestoe, from the Cherokee tsistu-yi, or “rabbit place,” is about seven miles southeast of Blairsville. Flowing through the valley, Nottely River, a tributary of the Hiawassee River, comes from the name of the Indian village Naduhli, which means “daring horseman.”

“It’s not that rabbits ever really danced here though, sometimes in the dusk when nothing happens, we could believe they danced and wish them dancing, They came to sport forever in the name our country bears, one that the Indians gave it. Rather it is because the Cherokees, coming to fish along the Nottley River, found them so plentiful that in their fashion, naming a country after what was found there, gave it its name, a dancing place of rabbits.”

~poem by Byron Herbert Reece, “Choestoe”

This soap’s fragrance is a warm, fruity blend of earl grey tea, apple and peaches and is colored naturally by black walnut powder.