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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

Fish and Wildlife Service, which helped transplant much of the snail darter population to the nearby Hiwassee River, says that while their future is not yet assured, the fish are doing well so far.

From Time Magazine Archive

Interstate 75, a four-lane divided highway that crosses the Hiwassee River 35 miles north of Chattanooga, is notoriously prone to sudden fog.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The bridge over the Hiwassee at Calhoun, he said, could be finished in ten days, and the steamboat at Kingston would soon be completed and ready for use.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

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