Canoochee River
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The Canoochee River (pronounced kuh-NOO-chee) is a Script error: No such module "convert".[1] river in southeastern Georgia in the United States. It is a tributary of the Ogeechee River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean. In 1738 the Trustees of the colony mentioned the proposed house and ferry boat over the 'Cooanoochi River'.[2]
Course
The Canoochee River is formed about Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Swainsboro in southwestern Emanuel County by the confluence of Canoochee Creek and Little Canoochee Creek, and flows generally southeastwardly through or along the boundaries of Candler, Evans, Bryan, and Liberty counties, through Fort Stewart. It joins the Ogeechee River from the west in Bryan County, Script error: No such module "convert". south-southwest of Savannah.[3]
Name origin
"Canoochee" may be a name derived from the Muscogee language, meaning "little ground".[4] The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Canoochee River" as the stream's preferred spelling in 1910. According to the Geographic Names Information System, variant names have included:[5]
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See also
Sources
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Script error: No such module "webarchive"., accessed April 26, 2011
- ↑ 'Index: C,' in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 43, 1737, ed. K G Davies (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963), 339-345, Retrieved July 4, 2015, British History website
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- Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
- DeLorme (2003). Georgia Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Template:ISBN.
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