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St. Marys River seen from Fort Clinch, Florida, with nuclear submarine returning to the sub base at Kings Bay, Georgia. The St. Marys River (named Saint Marys River by the United States Geological Survey, [1]) is a 126-mile-long (203 km) [2] river in the southeastern United States.
Florida claimed that the state line was a straight line (called McNeil's line, for the man who surveyed it for the U.S. government in 1825) from the confluence of Georgia's Chattahoochee and Flint rivers (forming the Apalachicola River, at a point now under Lake Seminole), then very slightly south of due east to the source of the St. Mary's River, which was the point specified in Pinckney's ...
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 rivers and emptying from Florida into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.
The boundary between Alabama and Georgia, south of West Point, Georgia, is the west bank of the Chattahoochee River at the mean water mark. This was established in an 1860 Supreme Court ruling, Alabama v. Georgia.
Florida: Georgia: Marker on Chattahoochee riverbank is actually a few feet above and west of true tripoint at high-water line. [2] Alabama: Georgia: Tennessee: Tri-State Corner. Marker on dry land at surface level and unmarked on lake in cavern directly below.
The intent was to protect what was then the southern border of the United States (the border between Georgia and Florida), subject to various types of invaders operating through or out of Spanish territory. The Fort was abandoned after Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821 and there was no longer a border to defend. The area around the site ...
The U.S. states of Florida and Georgia have been parties to several original jurisdiction suits before the United States Supreme Court, captioned Florida v. Georgia . Georgia (1855) , dealing with the border between Florida and Georgia
Georgia, 64 U.S. (23 How.) 505 (1860), unanimously held that the true border between the states of Alabama and Georgia was the average water mark on the western bank of the Chattahoochee River. In coming to its conclusion, the Court defined what constituted the bed and bank of a river.