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Hiawassee is the county seat of Towns County, Georgia, United States. The community’s population was 880 at the 2010 census. Its name is derived from the Cherokee—or perhaps Creek—word Ayuhwasi, which means meadow, (A variant spelling, “Hiwassee,” is used for the local river and some other Appalachian place names.) Hiawassee is also known in the novel “Restart” by Gordon Korman.

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History

A United States fur trade factory was situated here between 1807 and 1811. Settled circa 1820, Hiawassee was designated seat of the newly formed Towns County in 1856. It was incorporated as a town in 1870 and as a city in 1916, after settlers violently removed the Cherokee communities living there prior in a night of massacre in 1776. Hiawassee was originally inhabited by predominantly Cherokee-speaking peoples, but the myth that the town was named after a Cherokee or otherwise Native American princess is false and is as mythical as the Cherokee princess herself. Hiawassee’s name is nature-based, as mentioned above.

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Geography

Hiawassee is located on the Hiwassee River at 34°56′58″N 83°45′18″W / 34.94944°N 83.75500°W / 34.94944; -83.75500 (34.949428, -83.755078).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km), of which 1.7 square miles (4.4 km) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km) (21.86%) is water.

Hiawassee is approximately 2000 feet (609 m) above sea level.

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