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The Etowah River is a 164-mile-long (264 km) [1] waterway that rises northwest of Dahlonega, Georgia, north of Atlanta. On Matthew Carey's 1795 map the river was labeled "High Town River". On later maps, such as the 1839 Cass County map (Cass being the original name for Bartow County), it was referred to as "Hightower River", a name that was ...
No list could ever be complete of all Cherokee settlements; however, in 1755 the government of South Carolina noted several known towns and settlements. Those identified were grouped into six "hunting districts:" 1) Overhill, 2) Middle, 3) Valley, 4) Out Towns, 5) Lower Towns, and 6) the Piedmont settlements, also called Keowee towns, as they were along the Keowee River. [5]
Little River (Etowah River tributary) Little River (Oconee River tributary) ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Georgia (1974) Graham, Paul K. (2010).
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The Little River is a 29.3-mile-long (47.2 km) [1] tributary of the Etowah River in the U.S. state of Georgia in the United States.. The Little River is located mostly in Cherokee County, and forms the jagged part of the Cherokee/Fulton (formerly Cherokee/Milton) county line, and part of the more recent Milton city limit.
The Allatoona Dam holding back the lake was completed in 1949 on the Etowah River, which in turn merges with the Oostanaula River at Rome, Georgia to form the Coosa River of Georgia and Alabama. Its basin upstream (mostly northeast) of Lake Allatoona covers about 1,100 square miles (2,850 km 2).
Raccoon Creek is a 21-mile-long(35 km) [1] waterway which traverses through two counties in Georgia, U.S., beginning in Paulding County and joining the Etowah River in Bartow County. The waterway begins near the town of Yorkville, Georgia and ends near the town Stilesboro, Georgia.
The site is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the well-known Etowah Mounds on the Etowah River. It predates that site by hundreds of years. Excavation of nearly 50,000 square feet (4,600 m 2) on the site showed that Leake Mounds was one of the most important Middle Woodland period site in this area from around 300 BCE to 650 CE. It was a center with ...