Place:Cedar Bluff, Cherokee, Alabama, United States

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NameCedar Bluff
Alt namesJeffersonsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS1003974
TypeTown
Coordinates34.221°N 85.596°W
Located inCherokee, Alabama, United States
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Cedar Bluff is a town in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 1,820. NASCAR driver Tina Gordon is from the town. Unlike the rest of the county, Cedar Bluff is a wet city. It is the "Crappie Capital of the World" – it has the highest number of crappie counted to have been caught of any other place. It also holds the great Weiss Lake and the Cornwall Furnace. The national attraction called the Little River Canyon was formed near there.

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The city began as a meeting of the roads to Livingston, Georgia, Lyerly, Georgia, and Centre, Alabama. To the east of the city, there is a Civil War site where Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeated Abel Streight and his band of raiders. The Cornwall Furnace a Civil war base for confederate troops lies there as well. Weiss Lake was constructed there for water which got water from the Chatooga river. The city voters elected (3 to 1) to have alcoholic beverages sold there on June 1, 2010.

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