Cherokee Dam
Cherokee Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Holston River in Grainger County and Jefferson County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The dam is operated and maintained by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to help meet urgent demands for energy at the outbreak of World War II. Cherokee Dam is 175 feet (53 m) high and impounds the 28,780-acre (11,650 ha) Cherokee Lake. It has a generating capacity of 135,200 kilowatts. The dam was named for the Cherokee, a Native American tribe that controlled much of East Tennessee when the first European settlers arrived in the mid-18th century.
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Cherokee Dam
Cherokee Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Holston River in Grainger County and Jefferson County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The dam is operated and maintained by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to help meet urgent demands for energy at the outbreak of World War II. Cherokee Dam is 175 feet (53 m) high and impounds the 28,780-acre (11,650 ha) Cherokee Lake. It has a generating capacity of 135,200 kilowatts. The dam was named for the Cherokee, a Native American tribe that controlled much of East Tennessee when the first European settlers arrived in the mid-18th century.
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Cherokee Dam is a hydroelectri ...... rived in the mid-18th century.
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切诺基大坝位于美国东南部的田纳西州格兰格县和杰杰斐逊县境内, ...... 一批欧洲移民到来时,这个部落控制着田纳西州东部的大部分地区。
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Cherokee Dam is a hydroelectri ...... rived in the mid-18th century.
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切诺基大坝位于美国东南部的田纳西州格兰格县和杰杰斐逊县境内, ...... 一批欧洲移民到来时,这个部落控制着田纳西州东部的大部分地区。
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切诺基大坝
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