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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. It is managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority and is primarily fed by the Toccoa River.
Blue Ridge Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Toccoa River in Fannin County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the uppermost of four dams on the Toccoa/Ocoee River owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The dam impounds the 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) Blue Ridge Lake on the southwestern fringe of the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1]
Blue Ridge is a community in Houston, Texas, United States that used to be a distinct unincorporated area in northeast Fort Bend County. The community, which was also known as Hobby , is located on a ridge of Oyster Creek, 16 miles (26 km) east of Richmond . [ 1 ]
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.
Vogel State Park Lake Dam, also known as Lake Trahlyta Dam, is a 52-foot (16 m) high earthen embankment. The 600-foot (180 m) long dam has a maximum discharge of 2,447 cubic feet (69.3 m 3) per second. Its capacity is 522 acre-feet (644,000 m 3), although its normal storage is 210 acre-feet (260,000 m 3). It drains an area of 1,638 acres (663 ha).
Carters Lake, owned by the US Army Corps of Engineers, is a man-made lake without private docks or houses along its shore. [2] This lake is fed by the Coosawattee River that runs between Ellijay and Chatsworth, and was formed by Carters Dam , the tallest earthen dam east of the Mississippi, which was completed in 1977.
At milepost marker 86 of the Blue Ridge Parkway stands the Peaks of Otter. Archaeological evidence under Abbott Lake indicates that Native Americans have been visiting the Peaks of Otter for at least 8,000 years for hunting, travel, and rest. European settlers started establishing the area in the mid-1700s.
Blue Ridge Dam, a hydroelectric dam in Fannin Co., Georgia Lake Blue Ridge, a lake created by the completion of Blue Ridge Dam; Blue Ridge Mountain (New York), an elevation in Hamilton County; Blue Ridge Mountains, a major range of the Appalachian Mountains Blue Ridge Mountain, in Virginia and West Virginia