Note: The following is the first of a series of columns exploring the use of rivers in the early history of Georgia and Bulloch County. Adiel Sherwood wrote in his "A Gazetteer of the State of Georgia" (1837) that the "Ogeechee River ... separates Burke and Emanuel; Scriven and Effingham from Bulloch ... and discharges its waters into Ossabaw sound." Sherwood continued, "It is more than 200 miles long, and navigable to Louisville for boats of 30 tons burthen.