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Little Tennessee River

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  1. a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and E Tennessee, flowing NW to the Tennessee River. 135 miles (217 km) long.


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At the time, it was only known to exist in the Little Tennessee River — which the Tennessee Valley Authority was planning to dam.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023

At the time, it had just been discovered and was only known to exist in one stretch of the Little Tennessee River — which the Tennessee Valley Authority was planning to dam.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

The fish held up construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee for more than two years as biologists and others fought to protect its only known habitat, the free-flowing Little Tennessee River.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2022

The Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam project would turn the free-flowing Little Tennessee River, the snail darter's only natural habitat, into a stagnant lake.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the lake’s western end, where the Little Tennessee River flows into it, stands a big hydroelectric dam, 480 feet high, built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson