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Originally constructed to power two nitrate plants that manufactured explosives, Wilson dam was completed in 1924. TVA acquired the dam... Tags: Alabama | Dam Construction |
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Douglas Dam was built during World War II to provide power for critical war functions: aluminum and magnesium production and uranium enrichment... Tags: Dam Construction | Tennessee |
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In 1939 this hydroelectric dam began providing power to the residents of Marshall County, Alabama and surrounding areas. It also created... Tags: Alabama | Dam Construction |
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Pickwick Dam was constructed between 1935 and 1938 and was named for the nearby community at the time. Along with Wilson and Wheeler Dams... Tags: Dam Construction | Tennessee |
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At the cost of displacing 832 families and 17 cemeteries when construction began in 1939, Watts Bar provided flood control, electricity, and a continuous... Tags: Dam Construction | Tennessee |
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The Wheeler project was the first main-river dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and one of the few visited by President Franklin... Tags: Alabama | Dam Construction |
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The TVA Power System is a complicated network of dams, transmission lines, switching stations, hydroelectric plants, nuclear plants... Tags: Electricity | Map | Tennessee Valley |
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Not wanting to be known for strictly providing electric power for the war effort, the TVA continued to expand its scope in the early war years... Tags: Tennessee | World War II |
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Written for a publication over thirty years after the completion of the Fontana Dam project, this historical fiction piece describes life for workers... Tags: Dam Construction | North Carolina | World War II |
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This series of photographs depicts the transformation of James C. Ray's property in Buncombe County, North Carolina during a soil erosion project... Tags: Erosion | North Carolina |
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