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Fort Patrick Henry Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the South Fork Holston River within the city of Kingsport, in Sullivan County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.It is the lowermost of three dams on the South Fork Holston owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1950s to take advantage of the hydroelectric potential created by the regulation of river ...
Cherokee Dam on the Holston River forms Cherokee Lake; Douglas Dam on the French Broad River impounds Douglas Lake; Elk River Dam on the Elk River forms Woods Reservoir; Fontana Dam on the Little Tennessee River impounds Fontana Lake; Fort Patrick Henry Dam on the South Fork Holston River impounds Fort Patrick Henry Lake; Hiwassee Dam dams the ...
Dogwood Dam; Douglas Dam; Fontana Dam; Fort Loudoun Dam; Fort Patrick Henry Dam; Great Falls Dam; ... Bishop Hill Wind Energy Center, Henry County, Illinois; 2012 ...
During the American Civil War, the Confederate government built Fort Henry on the banks of the Tennessee River, in an effort to protect the upper reaches of that river from Union gunboats. Kentucky had declared its neutrality in the war. After Fort Henry fell to Union forces in early 1862, there was little more Civil War action in the area.
Fort Patrick Henry Dam: Holston River: Hydroelectric 41 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1953 Great Falls Dam: Caney Fork River: Hydroelectric 36 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1916 J. Percy Priest Dam: Stones River: Hydroelectric 28 United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1967 Melton Hill Dam: Clinch River: Hydroelectric 79 Tennessee Valley Authority ...
The main stem of the Holston is impounded by the Tennessee Valley Authority's Cherokee Dam near Jefferson City, Tennessee, forming Cherokee Lake. Five other dams, also managed by TVA, impound the Holston's headwater streams: Watauga Dam and Wilbur Dam on the Watauga River, and Boone Dam , Fort Patrick Henry Dam , and South Holston Dam on the ...
Fort Patrick Henry Dam — Fort Patrick Henry Lake; on the South Fork Holston River; finished in 1953 by the TVA; Great Falls Dam — Great Falls Reservoir; on the Caney Fork; finished in 1916 by the Tennessee Electric Power Co.; acquired by the TVA in 1939; Hales Bar Dam; on the Tennessee River, TVA dam mostly demolished in 1968, replaced by ...
Calderwood Dam; Center Hill Lake; Cheatham Lock and Dam; ... Fort Patrick Henry Dam; G. Great Falls Dam (Tennessee) H. Hales Bar Dam; J. J. Percy Priest Dam; M ...