- Little River (northern Georgia)
The Little River is a small
river located mostly inCherokee County, Georgia , and forming the jagged part of the Cherokee/Fulton (formerly Cherokee/Milton) county line, and part of the more recent Miltoncity limit . It is atributary of theEtowah River , however theirconfluence is now submerged beneathLake Allatoona . Itflow s generally from east to west, and divides the Woodstock area to the south and Holly Springs area to the north. Its largest tributary isNoonday Creek , astream which flows northward out of Cobb and through Cherokee, and now also empties directly into thelake .The river begins as a small
stream betweenFree Home andHolbrook , just west of the Cherokee/Forsyth county line and just south ofGeorgia 20 , along Free Home Road. It flows south-southwest, crossing Free Home Highway (Georgia 372 ), then roughly paralleling Birmingham Road (also 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 (Georgia 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 theAnsley Golf Club atSettindown Creek , the county line diverges due south, and the river continues west.After Trickum Road, it meanders generally northwest, meeting
Rubes Creek andMill Creek at the same point, just before Canton Highway (Main Street in Woodstock) at the north end ofJ.J. Biello Park . Continuing northwest, it passesRope Mill Park just before crossingInterstate 575 , and begins to widen into the lake just before meetingToonigh Creek . Soon after, it meets the Noonday Creek arm of the lake, then widens and again narrows before meeting theBlankets Creek arm. It jogs southwest and the north again to meetRose 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 Cherokeecounty seat s) over the river between Oak Grove andSixes . This is now the point that informally divides the river from main part of the lake, and now has a smallmarina named for the river at the Little River Landing. There is also aboat ramp andparking lot maintained by theU.S. Army Corps of Engineers .
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