Lamar Electric Membership Corporation Incorporating Board of Dir

REA Project 75 was chartered in February 1937 and was energized August 11, 1938, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It became Lamar Electric Membership Corporation. This day, January 23, 2005, as we change the name to Southern Rivers Energy, the ...

The TVA System of Multipurpose Dams

Nickajack Dam

The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join.

The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives an ...

Strategy and Terrain

By closing the road and river, the Americans forced the British into rough, wooded lands where they could not use their infantry and artillery to best advantage.

Marker is on Park Tour Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

These Trees Planted in Memory of the Firefighters Who Died in th

These Trees Planted in Memory of the Firefighters Who Died in the Dude Fire June 26, 1990

Sandra J. Bachman • Joseph Chacon • Alex S. Contreras • James L. Denny • James E. Ellis • Curtis E. Springfield

Marker is on ...

World War I / Between the Wars

World War IOn April 6, 1917, less than six years after Great Lakes was opened, the U.S. declared war on the Central Powers. By August, the number of trainees grew from 618 to 50,000. Vast tent cities sprang up to ...

Garrard's Cavalry at Stone Mtn. Depot

July 18, 1864. Garrard’s cav. div. & Lightburn’s 15th A.C. (US) brigade moved from Browning’s Court House (TUCKER), to this vicinity & destroyed 2 miles of Ga. R.R. track, several culverts, & the water tank.

July 19. Long’s & Miller’s brigades, ...

North Redan

If the ‘redcoats’ had advanced down the road below toward Albany the guns of this strongpoint would have been the first to greet them. In 1777 the road swung from its present route diagonally across the fields below you toward ...

The TVA System of Multi-purpose Dams

Wheeler Dam

The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join.

The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives an ...

Battle of Culloden

On April 19, 1865, a part of Wilson`s Federal Raiders, moving toward Macon, encountered the "Worrill Grays" near this spot. The "Grays," numbering less than 200 men, fought a magnificent battle, greatly outnumbered. After a two-hour battle they finally yielded ...

Whitfield Canal

Drainage canal constructed between 1845

and 1863 by slaves of General Nathan Bryan

Whitfield, builder of Gaineswood, to prevent

water from overflowing and flooding his

plantation. The water from 2,070 acres south

and east of Gaineswood originally followed

a 17 mile course to reach the Tombigbee

River. ...