Lake Arrowhead is located approximately two miles (3 km) west of
Waleska
Waleska ( ) is a city in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. The population was 644 at the 2010 census.
History
The first white settlement in the Waleska area began in the early 1830s. Among these first pioneer settlers were the Reinhardt, ...
, in the mountainous, west-northwestern part of
Cherokee County, Georgia
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, United States. Located just east-southeast of
Bear Mountain, it is
Georgia
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's second largest man-made, private lake,
covering approximately and reaching depths of up to .
Gated community
In addition to the actual lake, "Lake Arrowhead" also refers to the lake's surrounding,
gated community
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. The community's property was bought in the 1960s and established in the early 1970s as a remote mountain retreat, but now finds itself at the edge of
metro Atlanta
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's
exurb
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and rela ...
an
expansion
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. The small
valley
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Lake Arrowhead sits in and the surrounding community was originally known by local residents as "Lost Town," which was initially settled in the 1840s. Many descendants of the first
pioneer
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A pioneer as a settler is among the first settling at a place that is new to the settler community. A historic example are American pioneers, perso ...
s still live nearby in the Waleska area.
The private, Lake Arrowhead community consists of two lakes, Lake Arrowhead and Lake Chickasaw, has two security gates, an 18-hole
golf course
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, a
clubhouse
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** In the United Kingdom, a gentlemen's club
* A ...
,
boat
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rentals, a
marina
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,
nature trail
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s, a
chapel
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, two community
swimming pools
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,
tennis court
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s and one
volunteer fire department
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; one fulltime fire department. Additionally, the community includes
condominium
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homes, some of which are located on the golf course, and a small, historic
cemetery
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, which consists mostly of graves from the Puckett family, early Lost Town settlers.
Schools
Local, elementary-aged school (kindergarten through fifth grade) children attend R.M. Moore
Elementary School
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STEM Academy in Waleska, while students in sixth grade, seventh grade and eighth grades go to Teasley
Middle School
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in
Canton
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. All
high-school
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ers (9th to 12th grade) are assigned to
Cherokee High School, which is also in Canton.
Reinhardt University
Reinhardt University is a private university with its main campus in Waleska, Georgia, and its Cauble School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Jasper, Georgia, Jasper. Over 50 graduate and undergraduate programs are offered on campus and online ...
, a private liberal arts university established in 1883, is located in Waleska.
See also
References
External links
*
Lake Arrowhead LifestyleLake Arrowhead Waleska
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110904153503/http://www.atlantarealestateforum.com/profiles/community-profiles/lake-arrowhead/
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Bodies of water of Cherokee County, Georgia
Populated places in Cherokee County, Georgia
Arrowhead
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Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Waleska, Georgia