This 660-square-mile swamp straddles the Florida-Georgia border
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Florida-Georgia border | The Florida Memory Blog  May 19, 2015 ... This is the second installment of a two-part series on border disputes in Florida history. If you missed reading the first blog, click here to read it.
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St. Marys River (FloridaGeorgia) - Wikipedia  The St. Marys River is a 126-mile-long (203 km) river in the southeastern United States. It is named after the Irish Saint Mary. From near its source in the Okefenokee Swamp, to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean, it forms a portion of the border between the U.S. states of Georgia and Florida.
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2008 Lake Woodruff NWR CCP - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  Located along Florida's St. Johns River about 25 miles west of the city of Daytona Beach in Volusia and Lake Counties, Lake ..... the Florida-Georgia border. The geographical position of the refuge, straddling the zone of overlap between the ... 660 acres of Farm Service Agency (FSA) conservation easements (Figure 2).
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chapter - National Park Service  mixed-hardwood and cypress swamps, and dwarf (hatrack) cypress ...... Florida, Georgia, and coastal South Carolina. Wood storks ...... area is 2,025 square miles, and the Preserve ... borders the Northeast Addition to the north, and the ..... the northeastern section that straddles ...... issuance of up to 660 annual ORV permits.
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On the Border, Part II | The Florida Memory Blog  May 19, 2015 ... Today, we look at an even more profound border conflict in Florida ... days the Florida-Georgia border was an international boundary line. ... area, said the source of the river was actually located about 20-30 miles to the south.
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Lake Seminole - Wikipedia  Lake Seminole is a reservoir located in the southwest corner of Georgia along its border with Florida, maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Chattahoochee and Flint rivers join in the lake, before flowing from the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, which impounds the lake, as the Apalachicola River. ... Seminole State Park covers 604 acres (244 ha) of lakeshore in Georgia,...
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, GA - Recreation.gov  Nearly all of the swamp and some of the neighboring uplands were set aside as the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in 1937 and now totals 403,119 acres.
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Kissimmee River Restoration - Florida Center for Environmental ...  May 19, 2016 ... Located in Florida's Heartland, the Kissimmee River historically meandered 103 miles from LakeKissimmee to Lake Okeechobee through a diversely rich 1-3 mile wide ... fill to capacity, sending the excess water into the river's floodplain. ... As a result of this ditch-and-drain effort, the wetland-dependent flora...
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Exhibition Checklist - Broward County!  "One of the most striking geographical features of Mnster's map is the large bay ... A false sea dividing North America began to appear on manuscript maps by ... to Florida, making many drawings of natives and a map of the region. ..... overseeing dredge construction at Fort Lauderdale, 1906] - [Ft. Lauderdale, FL; ca. 1906]...
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Suwannee River - Wikipedia  The Suwannee River (also spelled Suwanee River) is a major river that runs through South Georgia southward into Florida in the ... The mouth of the Suwanee River starts at the Okefenokee Swamp in the town of Fargo, Georgia. ... The river ends and drains into the Gulf of Mexico on the outskirts of Suwanee, Florida.
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GC1T98J A Louisiana Swamp Earthcache (Earthcache) in ...  Jun 4, 2009 ... In Louisiana, United States ... (not chosen). Join now to view geocache location details. It's free! ... Swamps. A swamp is a wetland featuring temporary or permanent ... Acids from decaying plants dissolve the limestone around each tree ... Cryptid reported from Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana since 1963.
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Alabama - Wikipedia  Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to...
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jeopardy/15 at master  towski/jeopardy  GitHub  [{"question":"This lake in the Western U.S. has a specific gravity that is 10-22% higher ... largest Florida lake covers about 700 square miles, but its greatest depth is only about 15 feet","category":"U.S. LAKES","value":"$400","answer":"Lake...
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the houses of colonial georgia - JStor  Trustees for Establishing The Colony of Georgia in America" (hereinafter ... a new fence for the church yard was ordered built.20 The .... Governor wright to Board of Trade, May 26, 1764 in C R Ga., XXVIII, .... "The Barracks are built with Lyme and Mortar and are 90 feet .... part of Tybee Island fronting the inlet.97 It was built.
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Georgia: Facts, Map and State Symbols - EnchantedLearning.com  Area - 59,441 square miles [Georgia is the 24th biggest state in the USA] ... textiles, timber (especially pine), agriculture (cotton, corn, peanuts, soybeans, poultry) ... Number of Counties - 159 ... State Motto - "Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation"
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Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp - HubPages  Aug 30, 2013 ... It begins in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Are you familiar with ... If you'd like, the Okefenokee will even cater your event! One of the many...
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What is the largest gulf in the world? | Reference.com  At 615000 square miles, the Gulf of Mexico is the largest gulf in the world. ... as the Gulf Coast, which includes the Florida panhandle and the coastal areas of...
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Lake Okeechobee - Wikipedia  Lake Okeechobee locally referred to as "The Lake", "Florida's Inland Sea", or "The Big O", is the largest freshwater lake in the state of Florida. It is the seventh largest freshwater lake in the United States and the second ... Max. depth, 3.7 m (12 ft) ... Okeechobee covers 730 square miles (1,900 km2), approximately half the...
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Published Articles - National Park Service  John G. Mitchell, WildernessAmerica's Lands Apart, National Geographic, ... That area, totaling 68 million square milesmore than 19 times the size of the .... The Wilderness Act is for the permanent good of the whole people. .... Page 17 ...... acres of statutory uppercase-W Wilderness set aside by the U.S. Congress out...
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia  Established, 1937. Visitors, 400,000 (in 2007). Governing body, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Website, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge  Ramsar Wetland. Designated, December 18, 1986. The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is a 402,000acre (1,627 km2) National Wildlife ... Native Americans inhabited Okefenokee Swamp as early as 2500 BC.
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NATIONAL FOREST - LocalWiki  The 571,000 acre Apalachicola National Forest, the largest national forest in ... For more information contact the Florida State Parks Information Center at .... The City of Tallahassee operates and maintains a number of parks, many ... A.J. HENRY PARK; 71.4 acres, picnic tables, playground, trails, overlooks at lakes edge.