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Hiwassee

American  
[hahy-wos-ee] / haɪˈwɒs i /

noun

  1. a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.


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Hiwassee College closed in the spring in rural, mostly white Madisonville, Tennessee.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2019

After getting the approval of the Veterans Administration, Hiwassee organized some elementary courses, and Cash put an announcement in the Madisonville Democrat.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the Hiwassee River in Calhoun, Tenn. last week, the South passed an important milestone in its fast industrial growth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until they came to Hiwassee, some of the men were completely illiterate, none had gone past the fifth grade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sherman immediately went forward, and on the 1st of December he was over the Hiwassee River, approaching Loudon.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox

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