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Memorial for 1996 Olympic Training Facility at Richard B. Russell State Park, Elberton, GA. The town of Elberton, Georgia and Elbert County contributed to the 1996 Summer Olympics by developing a facility to train at Lake Russell for athletes from Canada, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Japan, Moldavia, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United States.
The average surface area of Lake Waco is 7,712 acres, [8] surrounded by over 60 miles of shoreline. [9] The average depth is around 20 feet, however the max depth extends to 85 feet. [10] The average elevation of Lake Waco is held around 460 feet above sea level, with a typical fluctuation of 2–6 feet. [11]
Richard B. Russell Lake (known to locals as simply "Lake Russell") is a reservoir created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by construction of Richard B. Russell Dam on the Savannah River bordering Elbert County, Georgia and Abbeville and Anderson counties in South Carolina. The lake impounds primarily the Savannah River but also includes ...
Elberton is located near the center of Elbert County. According to the United States Census Bureau, Elberton has a total area of 4.8 square miles (12.4 km 2), of which 4.7 square miles (12.3 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 0.72%, is water. [4]
The Georgia Guidestones was a granite monument that stood in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, from 1980 to 2022. It was 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall and made from six granite slabs weighing a total of 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg). [ 1 ]
Bobby Brown Park, formerly known as Bobby Brown State Outdoor Recreation Area and prior to that Bobby Brown State Park, is a 665-acre (2.69 km 2) park located near Elbert County and Middleton. The park's name is a memorial to Robert T. Brown , a lieutenant in the United States Navy who was killed during World War II aboard the submarine USS ...
The Gaineses bought a lake house to flip in honor of the 10th anniversary of Fixer Upper, which premiered on HGTV in 2014 and ran for five seasons through 2018.
The northern half of Elbert County, north of a line made by following State Route 17 from Bowman southeast to Elberton, and then following State Route 72 east to just before the South Carolina border, and then heading south along the shores of Lake Richard B. Russell & Clarkes Hill to the county's southeastern tip, is located in the Upper ...