Some families were resettled, either by choice or by force, cemeteries and towns were flooded to make way for massive projects, and, more recently, TVA was responsible for the largest coal ash slurry spill in history at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee. Some had terrible, life-altering experiences with TVA. NAID 566800.Īdmittedly, others had a very different experience with the Tennessee Valley Authority. RG 142: Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

If you look closely, you will notice that it covers everything from water safety to hunting! Additionally, information found within the brochures created for the public act as guides for responsible use of the resources.īelow is a prime example of a brochure created for the public, this one specifically focused on Chickamauga Lake. You will notice the wealth of navigational information included as you look through the maps. TVA manages over 180,000 acres of land set aside for wildlife protection and management and public use for recreational purposes. The maps throughout this blog post will provide you with some idea of the immense scope of the projects undertaken by TVA and show the vast swaths of land managed by the agency today.

For more information about this series, please click here. There are corresponding photo coverage diagrams which provide date and scale information. Most photographs shown on the mosaic have a certain amount of overlap so most sites are shown in at least two photographs. The indexes consist of photomosaics of photographs for specific general areas, usually reservoirs. RG 142: Indexes for Aerial Photography of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933 – 1943.

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