Fort Loudon Dam

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Fort Loudoun Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam on the Tennessee River in East Tennessee. It impounds Fort Loudoun Lake at Lenoir City, Tennessee. This lake is the uppermost in the chain of nine TVA reservoirs that form a continuous navigable channel on the Tennessee River from Knoxville to Paducah, Kentucky, 652 miles (1049 km) away.

The dam is 122 feet (37 m) high and stretches 4,190 feet (1277 m) across the Tennessee River. Construction began in 1940 and was completed in 1943. It is named for Fort Loudoun, an 18th century British fort built during the French and Indian War. The fort was named for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, commander of British forces in North America at the time.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Loudoun_Dam
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Coordinates:   35°47'27"N   84°14'33"W
This article was last modified 14 years ago