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The dam is 388 feet long and 44 feet high [2] and impounds 18 million gallons of water [3] that used to be the water source for the nearby town of Woodstock. The dam was built in 1957–1958. Use of the reservoir was discontinued in 1979 and the town now draws its water from the North Fork Shenandoah River. [4]
Woodstock is a town and the county seat of Shenandoah County, [5] Virginia, United States.It has a population of 5,212 according to the 2017 census. [6] Woodstock comprises 3.2 square miles of incorporated area of the town, and is located along the "Seven Bends" of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.
The historic district is organized around three major north–south axes: Main Street (Virginia State Route 11), Water Street, and the right-of-way of the Norfolk and Southern Railway. It includes some of the best examples of residential architecture in the town from its founding into the early 20th century, as well as many civic, religious ...
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The river reached nearly 25 feet in the late afternoon, breaking the July 16, 1916, record of 23.1 feet, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration records.
The county was established in 1772 as 'Dunmore County' for Virginia Colonial Governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. Woodstock was designated the county seat. Dunmore was Virginia's last royal governor, and was forced from office during the American Revolution. During the war (1778), the rebels renamed the county 'Shenandoah.'
Virginia Senate chambers in Richmond, Va. ©Virginia General Assembly The outage stemmed from Monday’s winter storm that knocked out power at the city’s water treatment plant.