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The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a 900-mile (1,400 km) escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States. [2] Much of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line passes through areas where no evidence of faulting is present.
North of the Fall Line, in the Piedmont of Georgia and Alabama, the course of the Chattahoochee River cuts across prominent, resistant rock layers, including the Hollis Quartzite of the Pine Mountain belt, and must have established its current course prior to uplift of those units.
The city of Columbus is located at the fall line of the Chattahoochee River, a place where the river drops 125 feet (38 m) in a stretch of 2.5 miles (4.0 km). This location was recognized early in the American Industrial Revolution as a prime location for waterpowered factories, and the river was first dammed in 1828 (by a predecessor to the now-breached City Mills Dam), beginning what became ...
Historically, the fall line was a point of portage for river travelers, and a location associated with the building of dams and mills which harvested the power of the falling water. The Chattahoochee River was an essential resource in deciding to locate the new city of Columbus in 1828. The city saw the construction of three dams.
The Chattahoochee RiverWalk is a 15-mile (24 km) walking/bike trail that connects users from Downtown to South Columbus and the northern section of Fort Moore (formerly Ft. Benning). The Columbus Fall Line Trace is an 11-mile (18 km) fitness trail that runs from Downtown to the northeastern section of the city. [45]
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The answer is simple… the “groundhog nog” fed to him each fall at Punxsutawney’s annual Groundhog Picnic.” How do critters make the cut for NOAA’s weather-predicting ‘groundhogs’ list?
Lake Oliver is a 2,150-acre (8.7 km 2) reservoir on the Chattahoochee River, which lies south of Goat Rock Dam (Goat Rock Lake). The lake is created by the Oliver Dam and Generating Plant, which was completed in 1959 by Georgia Power. The lake was named for James McCoy Oliver, an executive of Georgia Power at the time.