Chestatee is a small town in northeastern Forsyth County

Forsyth County, Georgia

Forsyth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The county seat is Cumming, Georgia. Forsyth County is a part of the Atlanta metropolitan area...

, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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, United States

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, due west of the confluence

Confluence (geography)

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 of the Chestatee River

Chestatee River

The Chestatee River is a river in the Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia, USA. It begins at the confluence of Dicks Creek and Frogtown Creek The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta, none in modern use) is a river in the Appalachian Mountains of...

 into the Chattahoochee River

Chattahoochee River

The Chattahoochee River flows through or along the borders of the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers and emptying into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of...

. Originally a Cherokee

Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...

 settlement

Town

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, it was called Atsunsta Ti Yi.

The word "Chestatee" is a Cherokee word meaning roughly "pine torch place" or "place of lights", because they would use bonfire

Bonfire

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s along the riverbank

Riverbank

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s to light their torch

Torch

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es. They would then use these torches for hunting

Hunting

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 deer

Deer

Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. Species in the Cervidae family include white-tailed deer, elk, moose, red deer, reindeer, fallow deer, roe deer and chital. Male deer of all species and female reindeer grow and shed new antlers each year...

 and other wild game in the forest

Forest

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The Vann Ferry

Ferry

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, owned by Cherokee Indian Chief Vann, is just east of Chestatee, on the road to Gainesville, Georgia

Gainesville, Georgia

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