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Full pool for Nickajack Lake is approximately 633.5 feet (193.1 m) above sea level, and remains consistent during the course of the year, unlike nearby Chickamauga Lake. The world record for freshwater drum was caught from Nickajack Lake in 1972 by Benny Hull, and weighed in at 54 pounds 8 ounces (24.7 kg). A lake sturgeon was caught in ...
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[2] The land that Nickajack was located on is now part of Nickajack Lake, a reservoir created by the Tennessee Valley Authority. [3] The boundary between Tennessee and Georgia, however, was not surveyed until after the Alabama Territory was created on December 10, 1817. Shortly thereafter both Tennessee and Georgia's legislatures agreed to ...
A curve of the Tennessee River and Nickajack Lake and what was once known as Bennett Lake (now part of the Tennessee River Gorge) and an escarpment of Walden Ridge on the north and I-24 at the south. To the south of Haletown is an area known as Ladds (a residential area at the base of Ladds Mountain along TN-156).
Marion County was established in 1817. In 1779 Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe moved down the Tennessee River from Chickamauga Creek to Running Water creek, and he helped establish the town of Nickajack at the entrance of Nickajack Cave. In 1794, the town was attacked and burned by militiamen commanded by Colonel James Orr of Nashville, Tennessee.
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The Nickajack region was a loosely defined region of North Alabama and East Tennessee where public sentiment adhered more strongly to the Union.In the period leading up to the American Civil War, there had been increasing talk of secession by politicians representing the interests of wealthy planters who had large cotton plantations in the Black Belt.
SR 156 begins in Franklin County atop the western part of the Cumberland Plateau near Sewanee at an intersection with U.S. Route 41A/Tennessee State Route 15/SR 56.It winds its way southeastward across a remote section of the plateau, passing through Franklin State Forest along the way and crossing into Marion County after straddling the county line for a few miles.