Historic canoe removed from Chattooga, awaiting transport to Clayton

By Don Fraser, Special correspondent

Submitted photo. Buzz Williams, a Chattooga Conservancy program associate, foreground, observes as an antique hand-carved wooden canoe is lowered down a ridge.

After six weeks of extreme manual effort, an ancient dugout canoe has been retrieved from Section III of the Chattooga River.

The heart pine, hand carved canoe was discovered late last year by a group …