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The Toccoa River and Ocoee River are the names in use for a single 93-mile-long (150 km) [3] [better source needed] river that flows northwestward through the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States. It is a tributary of the Hiwassee River, which it joins in Polk County, Tennessee, near the town of Benton. Three power ...
Toccoa Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. [1] Toccoa Creek carries Toccoa Falls, a 186-foot (57 m) waterfall. [2] Toccoa comes from the Cherokee word ...
Blue Ridge Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Toccoa River in Fannin County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the uppermost of four dams on the Toccoa/Ocoee River owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The dam impounds the 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) Blue Ridge Lake on the southwestern fringe of the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1]
It is a tributary to the Toccoa River. [2] Cooper Creek was named after Joseph and William Cooper, pioneer citizens. [2] References
The Tugaloo River (originally Tugalo River) is a 45.9-mile-long (73.9 km) [1] river that forms part of the border between the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina.It was named for the historic Cherokee town of Tugaloo at the mouth of Toccoa Creek, south of present-day Toccoa, Georgia and Travelers Rest State Historic Site in Stephens County, Georgia.
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Toccoa is a city in far Northeast Georgia near the border with South Carolina.It is the county seat of Stephens County, Georgia, United States, [6] [7] located about 50 miles (80 km) from Athens and about 90 miles (140 km) northeast of Atlanta.
Fishing rod float. Lake Baikal. Eastern Siberia. It is impossible to say with any degree of accuracy who first used a float for indicating that a fish had taken the bait, but it can be said with some certainty that people used pieces of twig, bird feather quills or rolled leaves as bite indicators, many years before any documented evidence.