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The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta, none in modern use) is a river in the Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia. It begins at the confluence of Dicks Creek and Frogtown Creek (near the junction of U.S. 19 and U.S. 129) in northeastern Lumpkin County, flowing down by the county seat and former gold rush town of Dahlonega. It originally continued past the southern corner of the county, forming the entire eastern border of southern Dawson County with Hall County, and the far northern part of Forsyth County's border with Hall. It is a major tributary of the Chattahoochee River, which it ended into at a point which is now under the waters of Lake Lanier, since Buford Dam was built. The northwestern arm of the lake is called Chestatee Bay, which destroyed the town of Chestatee (called Atsunsta Ti Yi by the native Cherokee people) when it was submerged. The county boundaries still follow the original thalwegs of the river, with the lake coming as far up the river as Lumpkin's southernmost tip. At this point, the river forms an extremely small portion of the Lumpkin/Hall county line for about one mile (1.6 km) or 1.5 km.