Kentucky Lake Mailboxes
by Lorraine Baum
Title
Kentucky Lake Mailboxes
Artist
Lorraine Baum
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
What a fitting place to attach a row of mailboxes at the Cypress Bay Resort Loop in Buchanan, Tennessee! There are so many amazing sides to this magnificent lake and this was just one more for me to see. The following quote, taken from Wikipedia contains a lot more information about Kentucky Lake:
"Kentucky Lake is a major navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Tennessee. Created in 1944 by the Tennessee Valley Authority's impounding of the Tennessee River by Kentucky Dam,[1] the 160,309-acre (649 km2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the United States east of the Mississippi River, with 2,064 miles of shoreline, although the nearby Lake Cumberland is larger by volume. Kentucky Lake has a flood storage capacity of 4,008,000 acre-feet, more than 2.5 times of the next largest lake in the TVA system.
It provides a source for hydro-electric power and, as one of the lakes alluded to by the name of Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area, is a recreational magnet in western Kentucky and Tennessee."
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September 10th, 2016
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