John H. Kerr Dam is concrete gravity-dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Kerr Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
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constructed the John H. Kerr Dam across the Roanoke River between 1947 and 1952 to produce hydroelectricity as well as for flood control. Kerr Lake is the...
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John H. Kerr Dam is named after him deriving from his instrumental efforts towards the project. Kerr's son, John H. Kerr, Jr., and grandson, John H....
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man-made Kerr Lake. The lake, and thus the park, are named for Congressman John H. Kerr, who supported the original lake project. John H. Kerr Dam "Size...
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containing the original spring. During the building of the John H. Kerr Dam and the creation of Kerr Lake, the grounds were flooded. The bottling business...
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North Carolina border, the river is impounded by the John H. Kerr Dam to form the expansive Kerr Lake. In northeastern North Carolina, three miles (4...
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Southeastern Power Administration (section Dams)
District Hartwell Dam, Richard B. Russell Dam, J. Strom Thurmond Dam Wilmington District John H. Kerr Dam and Philpott Dam Power Marketing Administration "Generation...
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698 acres on the Virginia shore of 48,000-acre Kerr Lake. Kerr Lake, created by the John H. Kerr Dam on the Roanoke River near its confluence with the...
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John H. Kerr Dam Boydton Hydroelectric 297 Ladysmith Natural gas 893 Louisa Natural gas 509 Low Moor Power Station Low Moor Oil 48 Martinsville Dam Martinsville...
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home of Claytor Lake State Park; between Dublin and Radford John H. Kerr Dam and John H. Kerr Lake – on the Roanoke River; built by USACE; reservoir covers...
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Tainter gate (category Dams)
The Tainter gate is a type of radial arm floodgate used in dams and canal locks to control water flow. It is named for its inventor, the Wisconsin structural...
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with John H. Kerr Dam, which impounds the Roanoke River to form Kerr Lake. The state highway was assigned concurrent with the construction of the dam and...
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appeared in several British films, such as The Dam Busters (1955) and The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963). In 1979, Kerr returned to Australia and settled in Perth...
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Rock (23) Hartwell (24) John H. Kerr (25) Lakes portal United States portal List of reservoirs by volume Year of initial dam completion "American Falls...
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Southern Pines Sanford Apex Cary Raleigh Oxford Henderson Virginia John H. Kerr Dam Victoria Burkeville Richmond Ashland Fredericksburg Chatham Heights...
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Robert Samuel Kerr (September 11, 1896 – January 1, 1963) was an American businessman and politician from Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before...
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Area, it sits on the north side of the Roanoke River just below the John H. Kerr Dam. The terrain is gently rolling and fairly low, between 200 and 300...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains State Route 4 over the John H. Kerr Dam and State Route 143 in Fort Monroe, and the Metropolitan Washington...
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Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (category Articles with hCards)
work in hydrology in 1862, with the modification of pre-existing mill pond dams in Menomonie. Tainter was employed by Knapp, Stout & Co., the largest lumber...
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people of south-central Virginia. In 1952, with the completion of the John H. Kerr Dam and the formation of Buggs Island Lake, part of the park was flooded...
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communities before ending at the Virginia state line. Before 1952, when John H. Kerr Dam was completed, the road in Virginia would have continued towards Boydton...
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The McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System diverts from the Arkansas River 2.5 mi (4.0 km) upstream of the Wilbur D. Mills Dam to avoid the long...
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Lock and Dam created Webbers Falls Reservoir and Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam, created the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir, both part of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas...
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p. 55. Kennedy, John F. (August 11, 1961). "320 – Letter to the President of the Seneca Nation of Indians Concerning the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny...
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under Captain William Johnson Kerr. They set up ambushes in a thickly wooded area 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Beaver Dams. FitzGibbon with 46 men of the...
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supporting role in a movie for MGM, The End of the Affair (1955), with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson. More liked in Britain was another war story, Above Us the...
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"Zebra" John Fraser as Flight Lieutenant John Hopgood, pilot of "Mother" David Morrell as Flight Lieutenant Bill Astell, pilot of "Baker" Bill Kerr as Flight...
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Jacques Cartier. University of Toronto Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8020-6000-6. Kerr, Donald Peter (1987). Historical Atlas of Canada: From the beginning to 1800...
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pp. 126–128. Burton, pp. 384–385. Kerr, pp. 277–280. Kerr, pp. 280–282. J. Sherman, p. 1209. Burton, pp. 402–403. John Sherman: His Life and Public Services...
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report thereon from time to time." William S. Fulton (D-AR) 1838–1841 John Leeds Kerr (W-MD) 1841–1842 William L. Dayton (W-NJ) 1842–1845 Simon Cameron (D-PA)...
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