The Little River is a
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of the
Etowah River in the
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of
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.
The Little River is located mostly in
Cherokee County, and forms the jagged part of the Cherokee/
Fulton
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(formerly Cherokee/
Milton) county line, and part of the more recent
Milton city limit.
The river flows generally from east to west, and divides the
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area to the south and
Holly Springs area to the north. Its largest tributary is
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, a stream which flows north out of
Cobb and through Cherokee County, and now also empties directly into the lake. The
confluence with the Etowah River is now submerged beneath
Lake Allatoona
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.
The river begins as a small stream between
Free Home and
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, just west of the Cherokee/
Forsyth county line and just south of
Georgia State Route 20
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(SR 20), along Free Home Road. It flows south-southwest, crossing Free Home Highway (
SR 372), then roughly paralleling
Birmingham
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Road (also SR 372) to the road's west. After passing through Almond Lake (where it receives a tributary from the north), and picking-up another tributary from the east-northeast, it becomes part of the county line, except for a small section entirely on Fulton/Milton side between Clarity Road and
Hickory Flat Highway (
SR 140), which may have been a former route for the river. There are also other places where the line diverges slightly to the west side of the river. Just before the
Ansley Golf Club at
Settindown Creek, the county line diverges due south, and the river continues west.
After Trickum Road, it meanders generally northwest, meeting
Rubes Creek and
Mill Creek at the same point, just before Canton Highway (Main Street in Woodstock) at the north end of
J.J. Biello Park. Continuing northwest, it passes
Rope Mill Park just before crossing
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, and begins to widen into the lake just before meeting
Toonigh Creek. Soon after, it meets the Noonday Creek arm of the lake, then widens and again narrows before meeting the
Blankets Creek arm. It jogs southwest and the north again to meet
Rose Creek, widening and narrowing again at Little River Landing. Just after this, it ends into the Etowah River, the largest arm of the lake.
Bell's Ferry was located on Bells Ferry Road, and took traffic going between
Marietta and
Canton (the Cobb and Cherokee county seats) over the river between
Oak Grove and
Sixes. This is now the point that informally divides the river from main part of the lake, and now has a small marina named for the river at the Little River Landing. There is also a boat ramp and parking lot maintained by the
.
See also
*
List of rivers of Georgia
References
*
*USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Georgia (1974)
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Rivers of Cherokee County, Georgia
Rivers of Fulton County, Georgia
Rivers of Georgia (U.S. state)