Hales Bar Dam Tennessee Valley Authority Tennessee River Art
by Reid Callaway
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Hales Bar Dam Tennessee Valley Authority Tennessee River Art
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Reid Callaway
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Photograph - Photography
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Hales Bar Dam....by Reid Callaway
Tennessee River
Tennessee Valley Authority Art
I just happened to stop by Hales Bar Dam with Produced/Singer JR Hood a few years ago and took a series of images here with this as a backdrop. This is a revisit for a better image of what is left of a sort of spook looking place, Hales Bar Dam on the Tennessee River between Chattanooga and Nashville, TN just off of Interstate-24.
Hales Bar Dam was a hydroelectric dam once located on the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. The Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power Company began building the dam in 1905 and completed it in 1913, making Hales Bar one of the first major multipurpose dams and one of the first major dams to be built across a navigable channel in the United States.
In 1939, the Tennessee Valley Authority assumed control of Hales Bar Dam after purchasing TEPCO's assets. TVA spent two decades trying to fix a leakage problem that had plagued Hales Bar since its construction, but after continued leakage, and after it was determined that expanding the dam's navigation lock would be too expensive, TVA decided to replace the dam by building Nickajack Dam 6 miles (9.7 km) downstream in 1968.
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October 10th, 2017
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