Ocoee Dam Number 1 is a hydroelectric dam on the Ocoee River in Polk County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The dam impounds the 1,930-acre (780 ha) Parksville Reservoir and is the farthest downstream of four dams on the Toccoa/Ocoee River owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Completed in 1911, Ocoee No. 1 was one of the first hydroelectric projects in Tennessee.
Ocoee Dam with the TVA Ocoee Hypro Plant
Ocoee Dam No. 1 under construction in 1911
Ocoee Dam No. 1, 1940s
The Toccoa River and Ocoee River are the names in use for a single 93-mile-long (150 km) river that flows northwestward through the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States. It is a tributary of the Hiwassee River, which it joins in Polk County, Tennessee, near the town of Benton. Three power generating dams are operated along it.
The whitewater rapids of the Upper Ocoee during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
TVA's Ocoee Dam No. 3 on the Ocoee River in Polk County, Tennessee, ca. 1945