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A 5 page paper providing a brief history of Douglas Lake and dam, located in the Tennessee foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The paper describes the lush and awesome natural beauty of the area and describes in five-senses detail The Dam Store, a combination convenience and fishing tackle store near Douglas Dam. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: CC6_KSdouglasDam.rtf
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characteristics of the valleys and foothills West and South of what later would come to be known as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was that the rich surrounding farmland
was certain to flood each spring. The Great Depression put so many people out of work for such a long time that the federal government looked internally to find
ways to benefit the country in real terms while also benefiting individual ones in economic ones. One of FDRs New Deal components was the construction of a series of
thirteen dams along the French Broad and Tennessee Rivers in East Tennessee and Northern Alabama (From the New Deal to a New Century). The dams controlled the annual flooding
in the area and harnessed the power of water to bring electricity to a region in which it was only sparsely available. The
largest of the lakes created by the then-new Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is Norris Lake, sporting more than 900 miles of shoreline and the first of the TVA dams to
be constructed (The Story of Norris Lake). At 555 miles of shoreline, Douglas Lake is much smaller, but offers fishing experiences no less thrilling. The Setting
Douglas Lake is nestled well into the foothills of the Smokies, with public access areas in some of the most attractive places around the lake.
A hillside rises above the dam itself, and visitors to that hillside can see for more than 100 miles East on a day when the Smokies are less smoky than
usual. For as far as the eye can see from that vantage, a series of peaks stretches out into the distance in three directions. Between those peaks settles
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