Tellico Dam
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Tellico Dam is a concrete gravity and earthen embankment dam on the Little Tennessee River that was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Loudon County, Tennessee. Planning for a dam structure on the Little Tennessee was reported as early as 1936 but was deferred for development until 1942. Completed in 1979, the dam created the Tellico Reservoir and is the last dam to be built by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The main concrete gravity structure for Tellico Dam, pictured here in 2013.
The Little Tennessee River in Swain County, North Carolina in 2010. Prior to the Tellico Dam, the river resembled this portion in the Little Tennessee Valley.
Construction on the Tellico Dam concrete structure in 1967.
TVA engineers monitoring hydraulics on a prototype of Tellico Dam.
Little Tennessee River
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The Little Tennessee River is a 135-mile (217 km) tributary of the Tennessee River that flows through the Blue Ridge Mountains from Georgia, into North Carolina, and then into Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It drains portions of three national forests— Chattahoochee, Nantahala, and Cherokee— and provides the southwestern boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Little Tennessee River in North Carolina
Henry Timberlake's 1765 Draught of the Cherokee Country, showing several Cherokee villages and towns located along the lower Little Tennessee River
Montreat College students explore the Little Tennessee River
Fort Loudoun