2017 Map of Allatoona Dam

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Allatoona Lake dominates the southern half of this landscape, its fingers reaching deep into the forested valleys of the Etowah River drainage. The massive Allatoona Dam controls the waters, creating a shoreline where modern recreation at Red Top State Park and Bartow Beach sits alongside older, vanished footprints of regional industry and settlement. A rich collection of family and community burial grounds, such as the Alexander Cem, Shinall Cem, and the Macedonia Cem (Old) Old Macedonia Cem, provides a detailed record of the area's ancestral residents. The terrain is marked by significant rises including Signal Mtn and Pine Mtn, while the CSX Transportation line and 75 cut through the western edge near Emerson, marking the modern transit corridors that bypass the quiet interior hollows like Happy Hollow.