The fall line, where rivers descend from upper regions to plains, determined the location of four major cities in Georgia - Macon, Augusta, Milledgeville and Columbus. These cities grew at the fall line because rivers were important for transportation and trade as they reached the fall and became navigable.
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The fall line, where rivers descend from upper regions to plains, determined the location of four major cities in Georgia - Macon, Augusta, Milledgeville and Columbus. These cities grew at the fall line because rivers were important for transportation and trade as they reached the fall and became navigable.
The fall line, where rivers descend from upper regions to plains, determined the location of four major cities in Georgia - Macon, Augusta, Milledgeville and Columbus. These cities grew at the fall line because rivers were important for transportation and trade as they reached the fall and became navigable.
Did you know the fall line determined the location of four cities?
The fall line is a region
where rivers come down from an upper region to the plain. The importance of the rivers were to transport and trade. The four major fall line cities were macon, augusta, milledgeville and columbus.