Wetumpka owes its name to the Coosa River running throughout its limits, which historically served as home and subsistence for the Muscogee and later as conduits of trade and travel for settlers.
So a partnership between “The City of Natural Beauty” with the river conservation group Coosa Riverkeeper seems natural.
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