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Fontana Dam

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Fontana Dam, N.C.: see Little Tennessee Little Tennessee, river, c.135 mi (220 km) long, rising in the Blue Ridge, NE Ga., and flowing generally NW across SW N.C. and through E Tenn. to the Tennessee River opposite Lenoir City.
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Sixty-five years after hundreds of Swain County families were moved to make way for Fontana dam and lake, officials are negotiating a settlement to compensate the county for the federal government's broken promise to build a road to ancestral lands and 32 isolated family cemeteries.
Lesser known than Hoover, the Fontana Dam is also an impressive site.
If you want to spend a few days in the woods and are good physical shape, check out the section from the Nantahala River (US 19) to Fontana Dam (near NC 28) in the Nantahala Forest in North Carolina.
 
 
 
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