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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 .
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.
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The history of North Carolina from pre-colonial history to the present, covers the experiences of the people who have lived within the territory that now comprises the U.S. state of North Carolina. Findings of the earliest discovered human settlements in present day North Carolina, are found at the Hardaway Site , dating back to approximately ...
Pages in category "Dams on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Dams on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina (8 P) Pages in category "Dams in North Carolina" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
North Carolina — which The Associated Press in 2019 found had the second largest collection of dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition — set aside $7.2 million for removal of Shulls Mill Dam ...
It is the first of North Carolina's state parks to which funds were appropriated for land acquisition and park development from the outset. [13] Crescent Resources (now Crescent Communities) worked with the State of North Carolina and Foothills Conservancy of NC in 2004 to expand the state park, adding 3,000 acres (12 km 2 ) to the park's ...