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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.
Hamilton Gardens at Lake Chatuge, Inc. was a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that successfully restored the garden and operated it for six years. Located near the city of Hiawassee, Georgia , the gardens have the largest collection of native azalea and rhododendron in the Southeast U.S. [ 2 ]
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]
The river is dammed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in four locations, all in Western North Carolina: Chatuge Dam, Mission Dam (not owned by TVA), Hiwassee Dam, and Apalachia Dam. [4] Water is diverted from the stream bed at Apalachia Dam and sent through a pipeline, which is tunneled through the mountains for eight miles (13 km); then ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority operates the Tennessee River system to provide a wide range of public benefits: year-round navigation, flood damage reduction, affordable electricity, improved water quality and water supply, recreation, and economic growth.
NC 175 heads north, running just east of Chatuge Lake and is located in the Nantahala National Forest. At just over 4 miles (6.4 km), NC 175 comes to its northern end at US 64 near the community of Elf, east of Hayesville .
Hiawassee is the county seat of Towns County, Georgia, United States. [5] The population was 981 at the 2020 census. [3] Its name is derived from the Cherokee—or perhaps Creek—word Ayuhwasi, which means meadow, [6] (A variant spelling, "Hiwassee," is used for the local river and some other Appalachian place names.)