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2 unusual facts about Chattahoochee River


Chattahoochee River

The Shoupades were fortifications named after their designer, Confederate Brigadier General Francis A. Shoup.

Rapper Ludacris mentions the Chattahoochee River in the song "Who Not Me" on his 2004 album The Red Light District.


Allison Nelson

His father, John B. Nelson, who ran Nelson's Ferry across the Chattahoochee River, was an early DeKalb County settler who was murdered in 1825, when Allison was three years old, by John W. Davis.

Benito Ruíz de Salazar Vallecilla

In that year he led an expedition to the north of Apalachee Province, along the lower Chattahoochee River into southwestern Georgia and eastern Alabama.

Columbus Catfish

The name "Catfish" referred to the fish of the same name, which is commonly eaten in the South and is often harvested from the Chattahoochee River.

Creek mythology

Those who lived along the Ocmulgee River and the Oconee River were called "Creek Indians" by British traders from South Carolina; eventually the name was applied to all of the various natives of Creek towns becoming increasingly divided between the Lower Towns of the Georgia frontier on the Chattahoochee River, Ocmulgee River, and Flint River and the Upper Towns of the Alabama River Valley.

Fort Perry

It was constructed under General John Floyd and was used as a base of attack on the Sticks tribe (Red Sticks on the other side of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama territory.

Oval pigtoe

The oval pigtoe was originally described from the Chattahoochee River near Columbus, Georgia.

Tom Sellers

In 1950, he joined the staff of the Columbus Ledger, where he was assigned the Phenix City beat, covering news of Phenix City, a suburb of Columbus across the Chattahoochee River in Alabama.


see also

Chattahoochee River 911 Authority

The Chattahoochee River 911 Authority, also known as ChatComm, is the public-safety answering point for all emergency calls to 9-1-1 in Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, and Johns Creek, Georgia, in the northern part of metro Atlanta.

Lake Eufaula

Walter F. George Lake, an artificial lake on the Chattahoochee River between Alabama and Georgia, USA that is also known as Lake Eufaula, from the town of Eufaula, Alabama on its western banks

Oval pigtoe

Historically, this mussel was very abundant in the Flint River in Georgia, the Chattahoochee River in Georgia and Alabama, the Chipola River in Alabama and Florida, the Ochlockonee River in Georgia and Florida, the Apalachicola River and Suwanee/Santa Fe Rivers in Florida, and Econfina Creek in Florida.