Flowing Through Time A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River Chattahoochee Valley Legacy Series 1st Edition by Lynn Willoughby ISBN 0817309349 978-0817309343

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ISBN 10:0817309349

ISBN 13:978-0817309343

Author:Lynn Willoughby

This handsome, illustrated book chronicles the history of the Lower Chattahoochee River and the people who lived along its banks from prehistoric Indian settlement to the present day.

In highly accessible, energetic prose, Lynn Willoughby takes readers down the Lower Chattahoochee River and through the centuries. On this journey, the author begins by examining the first encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and the international contest for control of the region in the 17th and 19th centuries.Throughout the book pays particular attention to the Chattahoochee’s crucial role in the economic development of the area. In the early to mid-nineteenth century–the beginning of the age of the steamboat and a period of rapid growth for towns along the river–the river was a major waterway for the cotton trade. The centrality of the river to commerce is exemplified by the Confederacy’s efforts to protect it from Federal forces during the Civil War. Once railroads and highways took the place of river travel, the economic importance of the river shifted to the building of dams and power plants. This subsequently led to the expansion of the textile industry. In the last three decades, the river has been the focus of environmental concerns and the subject of “water wars” because of the rapid growth of Atlanta. Written for the armchair historian and the scholar, the book provides the first comprehensive social, economic, and environmental history of this important Alabama-Georgia-Florida river. Historic photographs and maps help bring the river’s fascinating story to life.

Flowing Through Time A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River Chattahoochee Valley Legacy Series 1st Table of contents: 

1 The Ancients
2 The Scramble for Muscogee
3 Along the White Frontier
4 A Land of Cotton
5 The Civil War Years
6 Moonlight and Magnolias
7 Workin’ the River
8 The Business of Steamboating
9 River Power
10 Troubled Waters
11 Will the Water Last?

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