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They founded two major cities on the river during the colonial era: Savannah was established in 1733 as a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean, and Augusta is located where the river crosses the Fall Line of the Piedmont, at the headwaters of the navigable portion of the river downstream to the ocean. The two cities on the Savannah served as Georgia's ...
Ebenezer Creek is a tributary of the Savannah River in Effingham County, Georgia, about 20 miles north of the city of Savannah. During the American Civil War , an incident at the creek resulted in the drowning of many freed slaves.
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Black Creek is a 13.0-mile-long (20.9 km) [1] tributary of the Savannah River. It is located in Effingham and Chatham counties in the Greater Savannah Area, Georgia. [2] The Tom Coleman Highway (Interstate 95) goes over Black Creek, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (5.6 km) south of the South Carolina-Georgia state border.
Richard B. Russell Dam is a concrete-gravity and embankment dam located on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia, creating Richard B. Russell Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1974 and 1985 for the purposes of flood control , hydroelectricity , recreation , additional stream flow ...
The Knoxboro Creek is a 2.6-mile-long (4.2 km) [1] tributary of the Savannah River. It is located at the boundary between Effingham and Chatham counties in the Greater Savannah Area (state of Georgia). [2] The Tom Coleman Highway (Interstate 95) goes over Knoxboro Creek, one half of a mile south of the South Carolina-Georgia state border.
• coordinates 32°1′0″N 80°53′0″W / 32.01667°N 80.88333°W / 32.01667; -80 Lazaretto Creek is a small tidal river in Chatham County, Georgia .
In 1950, the federal government requested that DuPont build and operate a nuclear facility to make heavy water and tritium near the Savannah River in South Carolina. The company had expertise in nuclear operations, having designed and built the plutonium production complex at the Hanford site for the Manhattan Project during World War II.