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Iconic Locations: Fontana Dam

The Green Tunnel by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

May 16, 202313:16History

Today, we're hiking on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, to the site of Fontana Dam. It's the tallest dam east of the Rocky Mountains. Constructed in the 1940s, the dam and its resulting reservoir flooded four...

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Iconic Locations: Fontana Dam is an episode from The Green Tunnel by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Today, we're hiking on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, to the site of Fontana Dam. It's the tallest dam east o...

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Published May 16, 2023, 13:16 long, audio available.

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