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Fisherman on a summer day in 2011 at Lake Chatuge, an artificial reservoir between North Carolina and Georgia. Lake Chatuge is a man-made reservoir in Towns County, Georgia, and Clay County, North Carolina. It was formed by the Tennessee Valley Authority's construction of Chatuge Dam (then the highest earthen dam in the world) in 1942.
NC 175 begins at the Georgia state line just north of Hiawassee, Georgia. This is at the northern terminus of Georgia SR 75. NC 175 heads north, running just east of Chatuge Lake and is located in the Nantahala National Forest. At just over 4 miles (6.4 km), NC 175 comes to its northern end at US 64 near the community of Elf, east of Hayesville.
Chatuge Dam is located 121 miles (195 km) above the mouth of the Hiwassee River, just north of the North Carolina-Georgia state line. Chatuge Lake extends southward for 13 miles (21 km) along the Hiwassee and eastward for roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) along Shooting Creek, which once emptied into the Hiwassee immediately upstream from the dam site.
The Hiwassee River is a 147 mi (237 km) river [3] in the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.It originates from a spring on the north slope of Rocky Mountain in Towns County in northern Georgia, then flows northward into North Carolina before turning westward into Tennessee; it joins the Tennessee River a few miles west of what is now State Route 58 in Meigs County, Tennessee.
Hayesville is a central township, and one of the six townships of Clay County, North Carolina, United States. The other five are Brasstown , Hiawassee, Shooting Creek, Sweetwater, and Tusquittee. Cities and Towns
The dam is located between Hiwassee Dam and Chatuge Dam. The city of Andrews, North Carolina built the dam in 1924 at a cost of $500,000 to supply energy. [1] [2] The dam is the oldest on the river (other dams on along the Hiwassee were constructed in the 1940s). Nantahala Power and Light bought the facility in 1929 and upgraded it in 1943. [1]
In the early 1940s Chatuge Dam was constructed near Hayesville by the Tennessee Valley Authority, creating Chatuge Lake. It was the tallest earthen dam in the world until the Aswan Dam was built in Egypt in 1964. [21] In 2017, the dam was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [22] The Peacock Performing Arts Center in Hayesville
VanLandingham Estate is a historic home located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.It was built in 1913–1914, and is a large two-story, wood-shingled, Bungalow / American Craftsman style dwelling.