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The Mount Morris Dam is a concrete gravity dry dam on the Genesee River. It is located at the northern end of Letchworth State Park , south of Rochester, New York in the towns of Leicester and Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York .
The Mount Morris Dam is the largest flood control device of its kind (concrete gravity) east of the Mississippi River. It is 1,028 feet (313 m) in length and rises 230 feet (70 m) from the riverbed. [15] The dam proved its worth during the Flood of 1972, saving thousands of acres of farmland and the city of Rochester from flooding.
Mount Morris is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States. The population was 4,465 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] The town and village were named after Robert Morris , an 18th Century slave trader and Founding Father of the United States.
The pre-ice age eastern branch of the Genesee runs south of Mount Morris and was completely diverted by extensive terminal moraines in Livingston County with a key blocking dam just south of Dansville, so most of the upper section of the ancient river was diverted instead to fall the off Appalachian Plateau toward the Susquehanna River system ...
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Morris Dam was originally slated to be called Pine Canyon Dam, but was renamed for the chief engineer of construction, Samuel Brooks Morris of the Pasadena Water Department. [6] With the dam envisioned as a private structure for Pasadena, groundbreaking was in April 1932 and construction was completed in May 1934, four months behind schedule. [7]
Mount Morris Academy was an important early school, but it closed in 1867. Just upstream (west) from the village on the Genesee River is the Mount Morris Dam (550 feet (170 m) long, 216 feet (66 m) high), which was built between 1948 and 1952 for flood control of the lower Genesee Valley.
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