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Blue Ridge is the home of the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, a restored railroad that features a four-hour, 26 mile roundtrip journey along the Toccoa River to the sister towns McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee. [8] The original tracks started in Marietta, Georgia, and reached Blue Ridge and the surrounding areas in 1886.
Blue Ridge Lake is a reservoir in Fannin County, in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. The reservoir encompasses 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) of water, and a "full summer pool" of approximately 1,686 feet (514 m) above mean sea level .
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. [1]
The Blue Ridge Mountains as seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway near Mount Mitchell. The following is a list of mountains constituting the Blue Ridge, a mountain range stretching about 450 miles from Pennsylvania to Georgia in the USA. The Blue Ridge is part of the larger Appalachian Mountain Range.
Blue Ridge is the county seat Fannin County was founded on January 12, 1854, taken from 396 square miles that were previously part of Gilmer and Union counties. [ 3 ] The county is named for Georgia native James W. Fannin , [ 4 ] who fought and died during the Texas Revolution .
The Blue Ridge consists primarily of metamorphic rocks, which are the metamorphosed equivalents of sedimentary rocks or igneous rocks. The geological Blue Ridge is commonly divided by geologists into the western Blue Ridge and equivalent Talladega belt (Alabama and western Georgia), central Blue Ridge (northernmost Georgia), and eastern Blue ...
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States in North America.The Golden Isles of Georgia lie off the coast of the state. The main geographical features include mountains such as the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in the northwest, the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeast, the Piedmont plateau in the central portion of the state and Coastal Plain in the south.
Map showing relationship of North Georgia mountains to the Blue Ridge Mountain and the Appalachian mountain system Northeast Georgia is a region of Georgia in the United States . The northern part is also in the North Georgia mountains or Georgia mountain region , while the southern part (east of metro Atlanta ) is still hilly but much flatter ...