The Apalachee River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed April 21, 2011 tributary of the Oconee River in the U.S. state of Georgia. It rises north of Lawrenceville in eastern Gwinnett County and flows southeast to join the Oconee River in Lake Oconee west of Greensboro.

It is spanned by the Kilgore Mill Covered Bridge.

Early in the period of European settlement of the region, the Apalachee was known as the Tulapocca, and subsequently, the South Oconee River. Around 1790, the river became known as the Apalachee, for unknown reasons, as the Apalachee were a native nation whose home was hundreds of miles (kilometers) away on the Florida Gulf Coast.

See also List of rivers of Georgia

References

USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Georgia (1974)