As spring approaches, local organizations have installed seven life jacket stations to help prevent drowning incidents.

They are thought to have given the Chattahoochee its name ... Some of the large rock overhangs along the river—the trails of Island Ford in Sandy Springs are dotted with them—are made ...

Then-Governor Jimmy Carter paddled down the Chattahoochee River to Akers Mill and jumped off Jumping Rock, according to Jones. She believes that's when Carter really connected to the park.