Cohee Cohee—also spelled coohee, kohee, quohee—was a name that Irish, Scotch-Irish and German immigrants to the colonial-era Southern United States gave themselves. They settled in the Shenandoah Valley and differentiated themselves from the Anglican ...

and Tuckahoe were terms applied to people of Colonial Virginia to differentiate original English settlers in eastern Virginia (Tuckahoes) from German, Irish, and Scotch-Irish in the

Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley () is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge- ...

(Cohees).

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