Power Co. Will Build Nantahala Dam this Fall

Power Co. Will Build Nantahala Dam this Fall

Hydroelectric power plants

Among the featured headlines the August 27, 1929 issue of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) was the article 'Power Co. Will Build Nantahala Dam this Fall,'� reporting on plans of the newly formed Nantahala Power and Light Company for a hydroelectric development on the Nantahala River in western North Carolina. The article indicated that the impounded waters of the proposed 175-foot high dam were to be directed through a five-mile long tunnel to a powerhouse at Nantahala, N.C. However, at the end of July 1931 the company halted construction of the Nantahala project as a result of the Great Depression and a resulting lack of need for additional electrical production in the region overall. Not until 1940 did work resume on the Nantahala Development.

Ruralite (Sylva, N.C.)

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