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Chattahoochee River, river having its source in several headstreams in the Blue Ridge Mountains in northeastern Georgia, U.S. It flows southwestward across northern Georgia to West Point, south of which its course marks the Georgia-Alabama and Georgia-Florida boundaries until it joins the Flint.
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The Chattahoochee River (/ ˌtʃætəˈhuːtʃi /) is a river in the Southeastern United States. It forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border.
Oct 6, 2021 · The Chattahoochee River forms the largest part of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and drains an area of 22,700 sq. km. The Chattahoochee River discharges an average of 286 cubic meters of water per second and a maximum of 5,500 cubic meters of water per second.
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In 1802, the state of Georgia relinquished their claim to the lands west of the Chattahoochee River, most of which is now part of Alabama, in exchange for the federal government’s pledge to remove all Native Americans from the state.
- Early History
- River Traffic and Trade
- Civil War and Postwar Development
- Power, Dams, and Controls
Archaeological evidence indicates that humans have lived along the banks of the Chattahoochee River for a very long time. Dating to 1000 B.C., the Kolomoki complex near present-day Blakely is one of the best-known sites of these ancient civilizations. During the Mississippian Period (A.D. 800-1600), at least sixteen significant settlements dotted t...
The first steamboat to run from the Gulf of Mexico to Columbus was the Fanny, which completed the journey of several months in January 1828. Other boats quickly followed, and Columbus became a thriving cotton-marketing center with unimpeded river travel to the south and intermittent river travel possible northward all the way to present-day Gwinnet...
By the late 1830s the towns located at the fall line along the Chattahoochee also used the river as an industrial power source for textile millsand gristmills. By the time the Civil War began in 1861, Columbus was known as “the Lowell of the South,” after the home of industrial revolution, Lowell, Massachusetts. Its mills were vitally important to ...
In the post–World War Iera, rail lines and improved roads proved to be the most direct and dependable form of transportation. The river was relied on less as a transportation conduit than as a hydroelectric power provider. Using the rushing water of the fall line, citizens built the first large-scale hydroelectric dams between 1899 and 1924 at Nort...
The Chattahoochee River forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River . The Chattahoochee River is about 430 miles (690 km) long.
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May 29, 2020 · The Chattahoochee River begins its journey to the Gulf of Mexico as a trickel in north Georgia, near Jack's Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Some 436 miles later it joins the Flint river forming Lake Seminole on the Georgia/Florida border.
