4,784 Ft. - Basstown Bald, GA
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N 34° 52.450 W 083° 48.690
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Located at the Summit of Brasstown Bald at trail to parking lot, The Highest Point in Georgia. - Fee area
Waymark Code: WM7623
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2009
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Located at the Summit of Brasstown Bald at trail to parking lot, The Highest Point in Georgia - 4,784 Ft.
This is located in the title of the historic marker located at the top of Basstown bald. The full test of the marker reads.
Brasstown Bald-The Highest Point in Georgia-4,784 Ft.
The name is derived from the Cherokee word ltse`yi (New Green Place) or (Place of Fresh Green, from ltse`hi (green or unripe vegetation),and yi, the locative. It occurs in several places in the old Cherokee country, variously spelled Echia, Echoee, Etchowee, and sometimes `Brasstown,` from a confusion of ltsc`yi with Ontsaiyi (brass). One settlement known to the whites as Brasstown was on upper Brasstown Creek of Hiwassee River directly NW of this point. The area near the Spring to the SW was once an Indian camping ground.
GHM 139-5 Georgia Historical Commission 1958
Location: Summit of Brasstown Bald
Posted Elevation: 4,784 Ft.
GPSR Elevation: 4745 Ft.
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