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The Hope Mills Dam, also known as Hope Mills Dam #1, is a concrete gravity dam on Little Rockfish Creek in Hope Mills, North Carolina, United States, which created Hope Mills Lake. Four different dams were built on the site including the current one. The first dam, of rock-crib design, was built in 1839 to power local cotton mills.
The dam and power plant were built in 1917 by Alcoa to support the Badin plant. At the time of its completion, the Narrows Dam was the world's highest overflow type dam. The Narrows power plant is a one-story building nine bays wide with a gable roof and six-foot raised monitor roof .
Cowans Ford Dam Cowans Ford Hydroelectric Station is a hydroelectric power plant and dam located near Huntersville, North Carolina , approximately 20 miles north of Charlotte on Lake Norman . It is the largest conventional hydro station owned by Duke Energy , generating up to 350 MW of power.
Sheinelle Marie Jones (born April 19, 1978) is an American journalist and a news anchor and correspondent for NBC News. She was one of the hosts of the third hour of Today on weekdays. She is also the host of the educational nature program Wild Child broadcast on The More You Know block on NBC.
NBC pioneered morning television more than 72 years ago when the network debuted its new show, TODAY, in 1952. Since then, the live broadcast program has become a cornerstone of American ...
Removal of this privately-owned hydropower dam in western North Carolina will be a boon for rafters, kayakers and tubers by allowing the river to flow freely for nearly 80 miles (129 kilometers).
The Cheoah Dam is a hydroelectric dam located in Graham and Swain counties, North Carolina, on the Little Tennessee River between river miles 51 and 52. The Cheoah Development consists of a dam and powerhouse, the first of several constructed by the Tallassee Power Company (now Tapoco), a subsidiary of Aluminum Company of America (now Alcoa), in order to generate electricity to smelt aluminum ...
The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but lost it during ...