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History The city's name derives from the Oconee people (also known as the Hitchiti), a Muskogean -speaking tribe who inhabited central Georgia at time of contact with European-American settlers. The Oconee lived in present-day Baldwin County, Georgia at a settlement known as Oconee Old Town, later moving to the Chattahoochee River in the early ...
Oconee County, Georgia. / 33.84°N 83.44°W / 33.84; -83.44. Oconee County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,799. [1] The county seat is Watkinsville. [2] Oconee County is included in the Athens-Clarke County, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Oconee War was a military conflict in the 1780s and 1790s between European Colonists and the Creek Indians known as the Oconee, who lived in an area between the Apalachee and North Oconee rivers in the state of Georgia . The struggle arose from tensions between competing groups of people as increasing numbers of European Americans entered ...
Lake Oconee is a reservoir in central Georgia, United States, on the Oconee River near Greensboro and Eatonton. It was created in 1979 when Georgia Power completed the construction of the Wallace Dam on the Oconee River. Lake Oconee runs through Georgia's Morgan, Greene, and Putnam counties and is separated from its sister lake, Sinclair, by ...
The Chattahoochee National Forest is composed of an eastern and western forest. The western forest contains Johns Mountain, Little Sand Mountain, and Taylor Ridge (Georgia). The combined total area of the Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest is 867,265 acres (3,510 km 2 ), of which the Chattahoochee National Forest comprises 751,069 acres ...
The Trans-Oconee Republic was a short-lived, independent state west of the Oconee River (in the state of Georgia ). Established by General Elijah Clarke in May 1794, it was an attempt to head off the new Federal government 's ceding of lands claimed by Georgia back to the Creek. In September 1794, state and federal troops forced Clarke and his ...
The Oconee River is a 220-mile-long (350 km) [1] river in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its origin is in Hall County and it terminates where it joins the Ocmulgee River to form the Altamaha River near Lumber City at the borders of Montgomery County, Wheeler County, and Jeff Davis County. South of Athens, two forks, known as the Middle Oconee River ...
Ocute, later known as Altamaha or La Tama and sometimes known conventionally as the Oconee province, was a Native American paramount chiefdom in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Georgia in the 16th and 17th centuries. Centered in the Oconee River valley, the main chiefdom of Ocute held sway over the nearby chiefdoms of Altamaha, Cofaqui ...