I will have to do some checking -- they are under the Dept of Interior if we can't find it under TVA---- if any one wants to look it up too. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Donna OBrien" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [TNMARION] Hales Bar Dam... | Betty, | | I'm not too sure about the history of Hales Bar; I know TVA keeps a lot of history on their dams, but this dam was one they took over and then demolished. I know that the Hales Bar Powerhouse is being renovated for dry boat storage, so maybe they might know where someone could find the history of the dam. (Hales Bar Marina #423-942-4040) | | Donna | | macbetty <[email protected]> wrote: | Is that the dam that was so controversial because they | took\basically stole, so much of the land away from the people by | forcing them to sell for little or nothing . There were a lot of movies | made on this including the documentaries showed in school classrooms. I | can remember watching the same black and white movie each year with | it flooding . As a child it was so scary to me and I had\ have such a | fear of floods , which I am sure is due in part to those awful movies. | Most people at the time did not have electricity in their homes, and | had no use for the electricity it brought or generated. Nor did they | want it ---------------- | Betty | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Mike & Donna OBrien" | To: | Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:12 AM | Subject: [TNMARION] Hales Bar Dam... | | || This is from the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Since this | dam pre-dates the TVA, you might try contacting the main library in | Chattanooga to see what they have on Mr. Guild & the Chatt. & Tenn. River | Power Co. || || Donna || || --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- || || Hales Bar Dam has the distinction of being the first main-river, | multipurpose dam built on the Tennessee River. In order to improve | navigation on the Upper Tennessee and provide electricity to the city of | Chattanooga, Jo Conn Guild Sr., a Chattanooga engineer, promoted the | construction of a privately funded lock and dam which would be turned over | to government management in return for the hydroelectric output for a | specified period. Congress passed such an act, and the Chattanooga and | Tennessee River Power Company began construction on the Hales Bar Dam in | October 1905. || || The construction of the dam and powerhouse was the largest development of | its kind in the region. The dam itself measured almost one-half mile across | and sixty-three feet high. The project employed over five thousand men, | requiring the construction of a small village to feed and house the workers. | Completion of Hales Bar, originally scheduled for 1907, was delayed by | flooding and problems with the limestone foundation, and the project was not | completed until 1913. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) acquired Hales | Bar Dam in August 1939 as part of the Tennessee Electric Power Company | purchase. Unable to overcome the foundation and leakage problems, the TVA | demolished Hales Bar in 1968 and replaced it with Nickajack Dam, 6.4 miles | downstream. || || Patricia Bernard Ezzell, Tennessee Valley Authority || || See Also: JO CONN GUILD; TENNESSEE RIVER SYSTEM; TENNESSEE VALLEY | AUTHORITY; TEPCO || || || ==== TNMARION Mailing List ==== || *********************************************************************** || PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, comments, || requests for help, and other genealogical related information || that is of interest to researchers having a connection or a || possible connection to Marion County, Tennessee. 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