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North Georgia. Coordinates: 34°36′21.9″N 83°58′46.17″W. The North Georgia mountains around Helen, Georgia. North Georgia is the northern hilly / mountainous region in the U.S. state of Georgia. At the time of the arrival of settlers from Europe, it was inhabited largely by the Cherokee. The counties of north Georgia were often scenes ...
The Chattahoochee River (/ ˌtʃætəˈhuːtʃi /) is a river in the Southeastern United States. It forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint ...
Hazel Creek. Herb River. Hiwassee River. Hog Wallow Creek. Hudson River (Georgia) Ichawaynochaway Creek. Jacks River. Jerico River. Johns Creek (Chattahoochee River tributary)
In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed 96,000 acres (388 km 2) of federal lands in central Georgia as the Oconee National Forest. The Oconee then joined the Chattahoochee to become the Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forests of today. The Chattooga River was designated a Wild and Scenic River during the 1970s.
Chestatee River. Coordinates: 34°31′41″N 83°56′23″W. The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta, Chestotee; [1] none in modern use) is a 32.76-mile-long (52.72 km) [2] river in the Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia, USA. The word "Chestatee" is a Cherokee word meaning roughly "pine torch ...
The Altamaha River / ˈɑːltəməhɑː / is a major river in the U.S. state of Georgia. It flows generally eastward for 137 miles (220 km) from its origin at the confluence of the Oconee River and Ocmulgee River towards the Atlantic Ocean, where it empties into the ocean near Brunswick, Georgia. No dams are directly on the Altamaha, though ...
The Coosawattee River leaves the dam flowing west (directly into the Reregulation Reservoir). It serves as the Murray- Gordon County line before entering Gordon County. Near New Echota, a late capital of the Cherokee Nation (1794-1907) before removal in 1838, the Coosawattee meets the Conasauga River. They form the Oostanaula River, a tributary ...
The Etowah River is a 164-mile-long (264 km) [1] waterway that rises northwest of Dahlonega, Georgia, north of Atlanta. On Matthew Carey's 1795 map the river was labeled "High Town River". On later maps, such as the 1839 Cass County map (Cass being the original name for Bartow County), it was referred to as "Hightower River", a name that was ...