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Coosa

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Coosa (k`sə), river, 286 mi (460 km) long, rising in NW Ga. and flowing SW through E Ala., joining the Tallapoosa near Montgomery, Ala., to form the Alabama River. Locks and dams make the river navigable for barges to Rome, Ga. Jordan, Lay, and Mitchell dams on the river generate electricity.


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But when her mother dies suddenly, Coosa and her younger brother are thrust into an adventure that places them in the middle of two cultures, the Creek and the European.
Only Bowater's Coosa Pines mill and Abitibi-Consolidated's Augusta mill have any chance to compete with Dublin on transportation costs to the customer.
unnamed mountain rivulets bounce together to form the small Conasauga River, a brook that gives itself over to the Oostanaula, then the Coosa, and finally the Alabama River, which, after a sidelong meander through downstate Alabama, couples tentatively with the Tombigbee (Choctaw: "coffin-makes"), lingers as the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, and passes into the Gulf of Mexico.
 
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