When the Oconee County Industrial Development Authority decided late last year to donate 13 acres on McNutt Creek Road south of Ga. 316 to the state, it set in motion
For four years, a local historian tour guide who goes by the name of âOconee Joeâ has led ecology and history tours of Oconee waterways. People have the option of paddling canoes or kayaks for half a day, a whole day or even a weekend.
One of the half-day tour options is an eight-mile journey that lets paddlers see the last six miles of the Middle Oconee River and the first two miles of the converged Main Oconee rivers.Â
While paddlers, fish and fowl now use the Middle Oconee to traverse the region, Oconee Joe explained that indigenous people such as the Woodland, Mississippian and Creek tribes have used the corridor as a highway for over 10,000 years.Â
UpdatedMon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:31 am ET
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Jamie Boswell (GDOT)
Boswell Properties, owned by State Transportation Board member Jamie Boswell, is at the center of the rezone involving his client Maxie Price that is before the Oconee County Planning Commission on Monday night.
Boswell not only is listing the 47 acres owned by Price, but he has been informed of a decision by Georgia Department of Transportation senior officials to overrule regional engineers who had rejected Price s request for access to the Oconee Connector from his property.
Boswell also is listing at least 13 other properties that will be affected by decisions made by the Department of Transportation as it moves forward with plans to transform SR 316 into a limited access highway.