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The state park encompasses 1,220 acres (490 ha) on the western shore of Lake Eufala (Walter F. George Lake), a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) impoundment of the Chattahoochee River. The park adjoins Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge and is managed by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. [3]
The Walter F. George Lake, named for Walter F. George (1878–1957), a United States senator from Georgia, is formed on the Chattahoochee River along the state line between Alabama and Georgia. It is also widely known by the name, Lake Eufaula – particularly in Alabama, where the state legislature passed a resolution on June 25, 1963, to give ...
Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge is an 11,184 acre (45.26 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Barbour and Russell counties in Alabama and Stewart and Quitman counties in Georgia. Eufaula NWR is located on the Walter F. George Lake (also known as Lake Eufaula) along the Chattahoochee River between Alabama and Georgia.
Eufaula was the site of what may have been the last battle of the Civil War. On May 19, 1865, at Hobdy's Bridge near Eufaula a Confederate detachment attacked a 44-man detachment from companies C and F of the Union's 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment, resulting in one soldier killed and three wounded. [21]
Lake Eufaula may refer to: Lake Eufaula (Oklahoma) , an artificial lake on the Canadian River in Oklahoma, USA Walter F. George Lake , an artificial lake on the Chattahoochee River between Alabama and Georgia, USA, also known as Lake Eufaula, from the town of Eufaula, Alabama on its western bank
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Creating the manmade, 46,000-acre Walter F. George Lake also known as Lake Eufaula, in Eufaula, Alabama, required evacuating numerous communities, including the historically majority-Native American settlement of Oketeyeconne, Georgia. [11] The lakes were complete in 1963, covering over numerous historic and prehistoric sites of settlement. [12]
Eufaula: 237.764: 382.644: US 431 north (SR 1 north / North Eufaula Avenue) – Phenix City: West end of US 431 / SR 1 overlap: 239.248: 385.032: US 431 south (SR 1 south / South Eufaula Avenue) / West Barbour Street: East end of US 431 / SR 1 overlap: Eufaula-Georgetown GA city line: 239.895: 386.074: Ernest Vandiver Causeway over Lake Eufaula ...