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Etowah River User's Guide

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ISBN-10: 082034463X

ISBN-13: 9780820344638

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joe Cook, April Ingle

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From its headwaters on the southern slope of the Tennessee Valley divide near Dahlonega to its confluence with the Oostanaula to form the Coosa in Rome, the Etowah is a river full of interesting surprises. Paddle over Native American fish weirs and past the Etowah Indian Mounds, one of the most intact Mississippian Culture sites in the Southeast. See the quarter-mile tunnel created to divert the Etowah during Georgia’s gold rush and the pilings from antebellum bridges burned in the Civil War. This guide offers all the information needed for even novice paddlers to feel comfortable jumping in a boat and heading downstream, including detailed, accurate maps; put in/take out and optimal river…    
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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 5/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Safety
Boating Etiquette
How to Use This Book
An Etowah River Fishing Primer by Paul Diprima
The River
Headwaters • Hightower Gap to Hightower Church Road
Hightower • Hightower Church Road to Ga. 9
Etowah Falls • Ga. 9 to Castleberry Bridge Road
Tunneling for Gold • Castleberry Bridge Road to Ga. 136
Big Savannah • Ga. 136 to Ga. 9
Dawson Forest • Ga. 9 to Kelly Bridge Road
Eagle's Beak • Kelly Bridge Road to Old Federal Road
McGraw Ford • Old Federal Road to East Cherokee Drive
Canton • East Cherokee Drive to Boling Park
Lake Allatoona Backwaters • Boling Park to Knox Bridge
Lake Allatoona • Knox Bridge to Allatoona Dam
Indian Mounds • Base of Allatoona Dam to Henry Floyd's
Euharlee • Henry Floyd's to Euharlee Road
Hardin Bridge • Euharlee Road to U.S. 411
Reynolds Bend • U.S. 411 to Ga. Loop 1 / Grizzard Park
Rome • Ga. Loop 1 / Grizzard Park to Lock and Dam Park
Animals and Plants along Georgia Rivers
Protecting the Etowah
Photo Credits