Tag: Polk County

• Wall of Water

  Ocoee Dam Completed in late December 1911, the Ocoee Dam #1 is located in Polk County in southern Tennessee. It stands 135-feet tall and was the first plant to supply hydroelectric power to Chattanooga. It also forms Parksville Lake, a popular beach and boating area with 109 miles of shoreline. I took this photograph yesterday,…

  Photography, Structures

  architecture, dam, electricity, flood, historic site, home decor, hurricane Ida, hydroelectric dam, Ocoee Dam, Parksville Lake, Pixels, Polk County, prints, railroad, road trip, running water, structure, Sugarloaf Mountain Park, Tennessee, travel, water

• Sugarloaf Mountain Park

  Following a hike at Benton Falls, I later found Ocoee Dam No. 2 – a hydroelectric dam along the Ocoee River, in Polk County, Tennessee, built between 1912-1913. At the adjacent Sugarloaf Mountain Park, I learned that materials to construct this rock-filled crib-type dam had been quarried from a hillside across the river, with structural…

  Photography, Structures

  adventure, bridge, civil engineering, construction, dam, day trip, explore, home decor, hydroelectric dam, Nature, Ocoee River, outdoors, Photography, Pixels, Polk County, prints, railroad, railway, road trip, Structures, Sugarloaf Mountain Park, Tennessee, travel