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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river rising in northwest Georgia and flowing about 460 km (285 mi) southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River.

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Examples

  • At the Coosa River itself, a small town had grown up simply to serve the ferry traffic.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • At the Coosa River itself, a small town had grown up simply to serve the ferry traffic.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Then as the route descended down into the broad Coosa River bottoms, we encountered hunting and collecting parties canvassing the forest for food, building materials, firewood, healing plants, and stone.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Then as the route descended down into the broad Coosa River bottoms, we encountered hunting and collecting parties canvassing the forest for food, building materials, firewood, healing plants, and stone.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • After the Creek War any remaining Creeks were removed to land in eastern Alabama west of the Coosa River.

    swoonrocket jms 2009

  • Along the Coosa River floodplain, biota more typical of coastal plain regions can be found due to the valley and riverine connection to ecoregion 65 in Alabama.

    Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA) 2008

  • You've got, let's see, 65 which follows into the state capitol in Montgomery that's where you have the Coosa River and the Warrior River, they come together a little bit farther to the South but a great chunk of the Alabama River that goes in very close to the capitol in Montgomery.

    CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007 2007

  • We were fording the Coosa River when a whole passel of Creek warriors come a-whooping and a-hollering out of the woods like a cloud of Egyptian locusts.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Such partnership projects as Priest Rapids in Washington, the Coosa River development in Alabama, and Markham Ferry in Oklahoma already have the approval of the Congress.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • Our negro talked with the Indian, who had just fetched the scream, and learned from him that he had come into camp as a runner, and said that the war party had been crossing the Coosa River all day at the Ten Islands and was going then to meet Jackson.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

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