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Smith Mountain Lake State Park is a 1,148-acre (4.65 km 2) state park along the shores of Smith Mountain Lake in Bedford County, Virginia near Huddleston.Primarily a recreational area, it offers water-related activities (with a swimming area, occasional boat tours as well as rental boats, kayaks and tubes) as well as camping, picnicking, and hiking facilities. [1]
Smith Mountain Lake is a large reservoir in the Roanoke Region of Virginia, [3] United States, located southeast of the City of Roanoke and southwest of Lynchburg. The lake was created in 1963 by the Smith Mountain Dam impounding the Roanoke River .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Stafford County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Smith Lake, a reservoir in Stafford County, Virginia; Smith Lake (Thurston County, Washington) This page was last edited on 30 March 2018, at 23:06 (UTC). Text is ...
Westby Coon-Prairie Lutheran Church in Westby was established in 1851. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad began servicing Westby and surrounding townships in August 1879, and the La Crosse and Southeastern Railroad began service to the area in January 1905, though both railroads have long since ceased local operations. The ...
Smith Mountain Dam is a concrete arch dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Smith Mountain Lake. The dam was built by Appalachian Power (a division of American Electric Power ) between 1960 and 1963 for the purposes of pumped-storage hydroelectricity .
Smith Mountain Cooperative Wildlife Management Area is a 4,996-acre (20.22 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Bedford and Pittsylvania counties, Virginia.Located on the shores of Smith Mountain Lake, the WMA is owned by Appalachian Power and cooperatively managed by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation through a conservation easement ...
Widewater State Park is a state park on a 1,100 acres (450 ha) peninsula in the Potomac River in Stafford County, Virginia. It and Leesylvania State Park to the north on Occoquan Bay, and several wildlife refuges and regional parks are on the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail .