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Wetumpka and the Coosa River annually play host to the Coosa River Challenge, which began in 2003 and regularly draws 150 to 200 participants.
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Wetumpka and Coosa
The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.
To be more precise, the Coosa River and the Tallapoosa River flow together at Wetumpka, Alabama, to form the Alabama River, and then the Cahaba River is a tributary to that one farther to the west.
The name Wetumpka is a historic Creek place word meaning " rumbling waters ", supposedly a description of the sound of the nearby Coosa River as the water falls over the rapids of the Devil's Staircase.
The area around Wetumpka was the heart of the Upper Creek lands, whose largest towns were located on the banks of the Tallapoosa River and Coosa River at Wetumpka and Talisi ( now Tallassee ).
The west bank looking across the Coosa River toward two Wetumpka landmarks, the Bibb Graves Bridge ( 1936 ) and First Presbyterian Church ( 1856 ).
" The city commissioned a steamboat, The Coosa Belle, to ferry passengers and cotton between Wetumpka and Mobile.
In 1866, a Reconstruction government drew up a new plan of counties for the state, and Elmore County was created out of parts of Coosa, Autauga, and Montgomery counties, with Wetumpka as its county seat ( Rockford was chosen as seat of the " new " Coosa County ).
Wetumpka is located at ( 32. 540972, − 86. 207726 ), and sits at the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers, where they merge to become the Alabama River.
Downtown Wetumpka covers two city blocks, and is bordered on the northwest by the Coosa River.
The race, a modified triathlon, starts at the Swayback Bridge Trail with a cross country run, a mountain bike leg, and paddling on the Coosa River to finish at Goldstar park in downtown Wetumpka.
:* Wetumpka, Alabama on the Coosa River.
Bowfin caught in the Coosa River near Wetumpka, Alabama ( released afterwards )
** Subfamily † VidalamiinaeBowfin, Coosa River, Wetumpka, Alabama
The first river town to form in the Coosa Basin was at the foot of the last water falls on the Coosa River, the " Devil's Staircase ", with the native name Wetumpka ( for " rumbling waters " or " falling stream ") adopted shortly thereafter.
Longear Sunfish from the Coosa River near Wetumpka, Alabama ( Released )
The Tallapoosa joins the Coosa River about northeast of Montgomery near Wetumpka ( in Elmore County ) to form the Alabama River.
Wetumpka and River
It begins at the confluence of the Oostanaula and Etowah rivers in Rome, Georgia, and ends just northeast of the Alabama state capital, Montgomery, where it joins the Tallapoosa River to form the Alabama River just south of Wetumpka.
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Elizabeth Spiers ( born December 11, 1976 ), a native of Wetumpka, Alabama, is the founder of Dead Horse Media, which publishes Dealbreaker, a gossip site about Wall Street, AbovetheLaw, a gossip site about law, Fashionista, a gossip site about fashion, and Supermogul, a now defunct business management site.
Wetumpka and 2003
: Mariann Simms, Wetumpka, AL ( 2003 Winner )
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Wetumpka is the home of " Alabama's greatest natural disaster.
The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of the five mile ( 8 km ) wide impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme (" star-wound ") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock can be found beneath the surface.
Its county seat is Wetumpka.
The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women of the Alabama Department of Corrections is in Wetumpka in Elmore County.
Wetumpka was previously the site of the Wetumpka State Penitentiary.
The ancient cities of Talisi and neighboring Wetumpka in Alabama have been home to the federally recognized Poarch Band of Creek Indians, descendants of the people who stayed in the state after removal.
Wetumpka is a city in Elmore County, Alabama, United States.
Among the notable landmarks are the Wetumpka crater and the Jasmine Hill Gardens, with a full-sized replica of the Temple of Hera of Olympia, Greece.
For those who have become confused by the meaning of the name, " Wetumpka ", you may observe for yourself that the word, " Wetumpka " means " Rumbling Waters " as is clearing stated on the wall right above the steps that are in the center of the stairways inside the old Elmore County Courthouse in downtown Wetumpka.
Authors have written books about " Tumbling Waters " ( Wetumpka ) while others refuse to acknowledge the correct meaning of the name of the City of Wetumpka.
Wetumka / Wetumpka was an Indian chief of the Creek Nation.
1814: Chief Red Eagle ( William Weatherford ) surrenders to General Andrew Jackson at Fort Jackson in Wetumpka.
With its strategic location at the conflux of three rivers, Wetumpka quickly became an important center of agricultural trade.
From the scattered fields and large farms of the interior, it was carted overland to Wetumpka.
Wetumpka had become a cotton-made boom town.
A New York newspaper declared that " Wetumpka, Alabama and Chicago, Illinois are the most promising two cities of the West.
Coosa and River
In the Appalachian Valley region the Coosa River is the principal river ; and in the Piedmont Plateau, the Tallapoosa River.
In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.
The Alabama River, in the U. S. state of Alabama, is formed by the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers, which unite about north of Montgomery.
After the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, the principal tributary of the Alabama is the Cahaba River, which is about long and joins the Alabama River about below Selma.
The navigation of the Tallapoosa River –- which has its source in Paulding County, Georgia, and is about long -– is prevented by shoals and a fall at Tallassee, a few miles north of its junction with the Coosa.
The Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers were central to the homeland of the Creek Indians before their removal by United States forces to the Indian Territory in the 1830s. In 1712 the Alabama River was descovered.
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Landlocked stripers have a hard time reproducing naturally, and one of the few and most successful rivers they have been documented reproducing successfully is the Coosa River in Alabama and Georgia.
The region is best described as a collection of moderately sized native chiefdoms ( such as the Coosa chiefdom on the Coosa River ), interspersed with completely autonomous villages and tribal groups.
Downtown Montgomery lies along the southern bank of the Alabama River, about downstream from the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers.
It is home to swamps, prairies and mountains due to the foothills of the Appalachians which end in the county, the Coosa River basin, and its proximity to the Black Belt Prairie.
Shelby County was the home of an early inland waterway, the Coosa River, and it was also the location of a very early east-west railroad in Alabama that connected Atlanta, Georgia, with locations to its west.
Most of Shelby County is drained either by the Cahaba River, which flows along the northern edge of the county, and then to the southwest, or by the Coosa River, whose valley includes the eastern end of the county.
Much farther south, both the Cahaba River and the Coosa River flow into the Alabama River, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico.
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