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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.
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.
Lake Chatuge was created in 1942. Chatuge Dam was constructed near Hayesville in the early 1940s by the Tennessee Valley Authority, creating Chatuge Lake. At the time, Chatuge Dam was the highest earthen dam in the world until the Aswan Dam was constructed in Egypt in 1964. [23] The dam was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
North Carolina Highway 175 (NC 175) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The highway runs north from the Georgia state line to US 64 , along the eastern banks of Chatuge Lake .
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
Lake Chatuge, an artificial reservoir, was created by the completion of Chatuge Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1942. The $27 million Brasstown Valley Resort was built on 503 acres east of Young Harris in 1995. [8] Fieldstone Inn on the shore of Lake Chatuge opened in June 1987. [9] A moon tree was planted in Towns County in 2024. [10]
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