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  2. Chattooga River - Wikipedia

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    The East Fork Chattooga River (sometimes East Prong Chattooga River) runs in from Jackson County, North Carolina and then Oconee County, South Carolina, and is 7.4 miles (11.9 km) long. [1] The West Fork Chattooga River (variant name Gumekoloke Creek ) runs 6.0 miles (9.7 km) [ 1 ] in from Rabun County, Georgia, and is also a variant name for ...

  3. Tennessee–Georgia water dispute - Wikipedia

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    The teams met at Ellicott's Rock, located along the Chattooga River, which was constructed by astronomer and surveyor Andrew Ellicott in 1811, marking what he determined to be the tripoint of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and continued westward until they reached the location where the Georgia and Tennessee teams had stopped ...

  4. List of river borders of U.S. states - Wikipedia

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    The boundary between Alabama and Georgia, south of West Point, Georgia, is the west bank of the Chattahoochee River at the mean water mark. This was established in an 1860 Supreme Court ruling, Alabama v.

  5. List of rivers of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Little River (Horry County, South Carolina) Little River (Jacob Fork) Little River (Neuse River tributary) Little River (North Carolina-Virginia) Little River (Pee Dee River tributary) Little River (Roanoke River tributary) Little Tennessee River; Little Uwharrie River; Lockwood Folly River; Lower Little River; Lumber River; Lynch Creek ...

  6. Ellicott's Rock - Wikipedia

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    He engraved a large rock in the Chattooga River with "N-G", standing for North Carolina - Georgia. The location had been prescribed in part in 1787 by the Treaty of Beaufort, though the river was not named explicitly, but rather as a then-undiscovered tributary of the Savannah River between Georgia and South Carolina.

  7. Eastern Continental Divide - Wikipedia

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    In Georgia, the Divide generally separates the Apalachicola River, watershed in the west from the Savannah River and Altamaha River watersheds to the east, passing through the Atlanta metropolitan area and extending past the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains southeasterly across the Georgia plateau. In southern Georgia, it separates the ...

  8. Treaty of Beaufort - Wikipedia

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    At that time, the area had not been fully surveyed, thus the somewhat ambiguous wording. If that headwater point was south of Georgia's border with North Carolina (nominally latitude 35°N), then South Carolina would claim everything north of a due-west line from that point, and south of 35°N, as far west as the Mississippi River. This claim ...

  9. Tallulah River - Wikipedia

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    The Tallulah River (/ t ə ˈ l uː l ə / tə-LOO-lə) is a 47.7-mile-long (76.8 km) [1] river in Georgia and North Carolina.It begins in Clay County, North Carolina, near Standing Indian Mountain in the Southern Nantahala Wilderness and flows south into Georgia, crossing the state line into Towns County. [2]