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The Walter F. George Lake, named for Walter F. George (1878–1957), a United States senator from Georgia, is formed on the Chattahoochee River along the state line between Alabama and Georgia. It is also widely known by the name, Lake Eufaula – particularly in Alabama, where the state legislature passed a resolution on June 25, 1963, to give ...
The state park encompasses 1,220 acres (490 ha) on the western shore of Lake Eufala (Walter F. George Lake), a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) impoundment of the Chattahoochee River. The park adjoins Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge and is managed by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. [3]
Eufaula was the site of what may have been the last battle of the Civil War. On May 19, 1865, at Hobdy's Bridge near Eufaula a Confederate detachment attacked a 44-man detachment from companies C and F of the Union's 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment, resulting in one soldier killed and three wounded. [21]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Barbour County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [1]
Alabama governors from Barbour County Name In Office Hometown John Gill Shorter: 1861–1863 Eufaula, AL William Dorsey Jelks: 1901–1907 Eufaula, AL Braxton Bragg Comer: 1907–1911 Spring Hill, AL Charles S. McDowell: July 10,11, 1924 Eufaula, AL Chauncey Sparks: 1943–1947 Eufaula, AL George Corley Wallace: 1963–1967, 1971–1979, 1983 ...
A heartwarming TikTok trend has users traveling down memory lane — virtually — by exploring old Google Maps photos of places with links to cherished memories and loved ones.
Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge is an 11,184 acre (45.26 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Barbour and Russell counties in Alabama and Stewart and Quitman counties in Georgia. Eufaula NWR is located on the Walter F. George Lake (also known as Lake Eufaula) along the Chattahoochee River between Alabama and Georgia.
The former Arrowhead State Park, now known as the Arrowhead Area at Lake Eufaula State Park [3] is a 2,200-acre (8.9 km 2) Oklahoma state park area located in northern Pittsburg County, Oklahoma on a peninsula of Eufaula Lake. It is located near the city of Canadian, Oklahoma. Eufaula is one of the largest man-made lakes in the southwest.