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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.)
A United States fur trade factory was constructed in modern-day Hiawassee between 1807 and 1811. [5] Hiawassee was settled by whites around 1820 and was designated seat of the newly formed Towns County in 1856. It was incorporated as a town in 1870 and as a city in 1916. [6] Young Harris College was founded in 1886. [7]
Map of the United States with Georgia highlighted. Georgia is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2010 United States census, Georgia was the 8th most populous state with 9,688,681 inhabitants and the 21st largest by land area spanning 57,513.49 square miles (148,959.3 km 2) of land. [1]
U.S. Route 441 (US 441) in the U.S. state of Georgia is a 354.2-mile-long (570.0 km) north–south United States Highway through the east-central portion of the state. It travels from the Florida state line near the Fargo city area to the North Carolina state line, in the northern part of Dillard.
Big Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge [1] Woodbury, Meriwether County: c. 1840s 252.5 feet (77.0 m) Red Oak Creek Town lattice: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Callaway Gardens Covered Bridge: Harris County: 1870 60 feet (18 m) Town lattice: Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge [1] Blakely, Early County
US 76 east / SR 2 east – Clayton, Hightower Creek Vineyards: Southern end of US 76/SR 2 concurrency: Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest: 26.9: 43.3: SR 288 west (Sunnyside Road) – Lake Chatuge Recreation Area: Eastern terminus of SR 288: Hiawassee: 29.9: 48.1: US 76 west / SR 2 west / SR 17 north (North Main Street) – Young Harris ...
The Hiwassee River is a 147 mi (237 km) river [3] in the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.It originates from a spring on the north slope of Rocky Mountain in Towns County in northern Georgia, then flows northward into North Carolina before turning westward into Tennessee; it joins the Tennessee River a few miles west of what is now State Route 58 in Meigs County, Tennessee.
The construction of Chatuge Dam and its reservoir required the purchase of 11,641 acres (4,711 ha) of land, 1,904 acres (771 ha) of which had to be cleared. 278 families, 532 graves, and 40 miles (64 km) of roads (including part of U.S. Route 64 and all of NC 69) had to be relocated. [8]