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  2. Hope Mills Lake - Wikipedia

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    Hope Mills Lake, also referred to as Hope Mills Lake #1, and by long-time citizens as The Pond, was a lake in Hope Mills in Cumberland County, North Carolina. Before it was a lake, it was a mill pond which was fed by Little Rockfish Creek. The mill pond was created in 1839 near the Hope Mills Dam for the first cotton mill in the area. At the ...

  3. Hope Mills, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The town center is next to a dam on Little Rockfish Creek, forming Hope Mills Lake. Little Rockfish Creek flows southeast to Rockfish Creek , a tributary of the Cape Fear River . North Carolina Highway 59 (Main Street) runs through the center of the town, leading north 5 miles (8 km) to U.S. Route 401 in western Fayetteville, and south 2.5 ...

  4. Hope Mills Dam - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. List of water parks in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    A section of Seven Peaks Water Park. Cherry Hill Resort, Kaysville; Cowabunga Bay, Draper; Lagoon-A-Beach, Farmington; Seven Peaks Water Park, Salt Lake City (Permanently Closed) Splash Summit Water Park, Provo

  6. Jordan Lake - Wikipedia

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    When the lake is at low water volume, many of these roads can still be seen and some have even been utilized for makeshift boat ramps. [3] Originally authorized in 1963 as the New Hope Lake Project, the reservoir was renamed in 1974 in memory of B. Everett Jordan, former US Senator from North Carolina.

  7. North Carolina floods: Lake Lure Dam overtops with water, but ...

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    Emergency officials warned in a 6 p.m. ET Facebook post that Lake Lure Dam water levels are now receding. Emergency personnel have rescued more than 25 people through "swift water rescue."

  8. North Carolina dam holds after heavy rains, concerns about ...

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    Water overtopped the Lake Lure dam in ... Lake Lure in North Carolina as seen from Chimney Rock National Park. ... America’s dams — more than 92,000 in total — are aging and many need costly ...

  9. Bass Lake (Holly Springs, North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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    Bass Lake was purchased in the 1950s by James Harry Cornell, who hosted a fishing club at the private lake. The lake was originally known as Mills Pond. [ 2 ] In 1996, Hurricane Fran destroyed Bass Lake Dam and consequently drained the lake; two years later, the Town of Holly Springs purchased the lake site for $230,000. [ 3 ]