Westlake High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in South Fulton, Georgia (with an Atlanta mailing address) and is accredited by the Georgia Department of Education and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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The Wolf Creek Shooting Complex, now known as the Tom Lowe Shooting Grounds, is a shooting range in Fulton County, Georgia, United States, southwest of Atlanta. During the 1996 Summer Olympics it hosted the shooting event. Until 2002, it was also often used for ISSF World Cup competitions in rifle and pistol events, although such competitions in the United States have reverted to being carried out at Fort Benning.
The venue is owned by the Parks & Recreation Department of Fulton County.
It has 20 trap and skeet shooting combination fields, and nine lighted areas.
The facility has been host to several NSSA State and Zone skeet tournaments.
The range is also home to recreational shooting leagues such as the Atlanta Skeet League and the Atlanta Trap League.
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Sweetwater Creek is a 45.6-mile-long stream in the U.S. state of Georgia, west of Atlanta. It begins in southwestern Paulding County, flowing generally eastward into southwestern Cobb County, then turning south into eastern Douglas County. It is a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, and near its end it is the centerpiece of Sweetwater Creek State Park.
Sweetwater Creek was named after AmaKanasta, a Cherokee chieftain.
Since 1904 there has been a stream gauge near Austell, at latitude 33°46'22"N, longitude 84°36'53"W. The watershed area above this point is 246 square miles. It is 857 feet above mean sea level. The flood stage at this point is 10.0 feet. The identifier for this gauge is AUSG1.
Major flooding occurred here in July 2005, after Hurricane Dennis dumped enormous amounts of rain across the Sweetwater Creek watershed, just after it had been soaked by Hurricane Cindy a few days before. The creek rose to one of its highest levels ever, flooding dozens of homes well beyond what was considered the 100-year flood plain. About 15 inches of rain fell at the gauge before it was ruined by the flood.
In late September 2009, the worst flooding ever occurred on the creek, after days of heavy rain. New records were set, and many roads were left underwater by it, including Interstate 20, which was closed west of I-285 for nearly three days. The USGS stated that it was greater than a 500-year flood. The National Weather Service said the chances of having more than 10 inches of rain in a 24-hour period were less than 0.01% per year, making it a 10,000-year event.
The previous record flood was 20 feet in July 1916. Base flow is around 2.7 feet.
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Midwest Cascade, also known as West Cascade, is an affluent predominantly African-American neighborhood in southwest Atlanta at the city's far west edge. Together with the tiny neighborhood of Regency Trace, it forms NPU-Q, the city's fastest growing Neighborhood Planning Unit from 2000 to 2010.
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The Cascade Mansion is the name of an antebellum home built in south west Atlanta, Georgia, south of the Sandtown, and was
built by Dr. William Poole and Elizabeth Gilbert Poole, son in law of the first physician, Dr. William Gilbert, in Fulton County, Georgia.
The construction began in 1860, and was incorrectly identified by soldiers of the US XXIII Army Corps during the siege of Atlanta as the "Head House". The home served briefly as the Headquarters of Confederate Major General William B. Bate, attached to S.D Lee's Corps during the Battle of Utoy Creek, August 1–7, 1864. The home and grounds served as a US Army Hospital during the Siege of Atlanta for the XXIII and later XIV Corps in August 1864. The home is of the antebellum style on the former East Point Road in Atlanta. The interior was finished in the Victorian style in 1869–70.
The property was purchased by Ms. Dixie Stevens proponent of Arts in Atlanta and the "Save the Fox Theater" and historical preservation in Atlanta.
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Utoy Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the Chattahoochee River.
Utoy Creek most likely was named for the Utoy Indians. The Battle of Utoy Creek was fought here in 1864.