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    1. Re: [RowanRoots] Savannah River
    2. It is the Yadkin River which is part of old Rowan Co., NC. The Savannah flows through Georgia. I hope this will help you with your search. For more information on the two rivers: From its headwaters near Blowing Rock, the Yadkin River flows east and then south across North Carolina’s densely populated midsection. It travels 203 miles —passing farmland; draining the urban landscapes of Winston-Salem, Statesville, Lexington and Salisbury; and fanning through seven man-made reservoirs before its name changes to the Pee Dee River below Lake Tillery. The Pee Dee courses another 230 miles to the Atlantic, leaving North Carolina near the community of McFarlan and ending its journey at South Carolina’s Winyah Bay. The Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin bisects North Carolina, running north to south, neatly separating counties on its journey. Total miles of streams and rivers: 5,862 Municipalities within basin: 93 Counties within basin: 21 Size: 7,221 square miles Population: 1,463,535 (2000) (in North Carolina) The Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin is the cradle of civilization in the Carolinas. Here, evidence of 12,000 years of activity documents the history of Native Americans in the Southeast. The basin’s gently contoured Uwharrie Mountains, the oldest mountain range in North America, played as much a role in human settlement as the fertile rivers that slice through them. Major tributaries of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River include the Mitchell, Ararat, Uwharrie and Rocky rivers and Dutchmans, Long and Abbotts creeks. 149.168.72.84/ee/ecoadr/yadkin.pdf SAVANNAH RIVER BASIN By Gretchen Loeffler and Judy L. Meyer The Savannah River basin includes portions of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia and flows through the Blue Ridge Mountain, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain provinces. The Savannah River forms the boundary between South Carolina and Georgia and begins at Hartwell Reservoir by the confluence of the Seneca and Tugaloo Rivers. From this point, it flows southeast to the port city of Savannah, Georgia where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Above the junction of the Seneca and Tugaloo Rivers, the major headwater streams of the Seneca River are Keowee River and Twelve Mile Creek. The Tugaloo River is formed by the union of the Tallulah and Chattooga Rivers. These headwater streams originate on the southern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina and Georgia www.rivercenter.uga.edu/education/k12resources/basinsofga5.htm

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