We
took an evening drive up to Pickwick Landing Dam.
Pickwick Landing Dam is a hydroelectric dam
on the Tennessee River
in Hardin County, in the U.S. state
of Tennessee.
The dam is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1930s
as part of a New Deal-era initiative to create a
continuous navigation channel between the river's mouth and Knoxville, and bring economic development
to the area. The dam impounds the 43,100-acre (17,400 ha) Pickwick Lake
and its tailwaters are part of Kentucky Lake.
Pickwick Landing Dam is named for a community situated near the dam site at the
time of construction. The community had been named after the title character in
the Charles Dickens
novel, The Pickwick Papers. Wikipedia
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