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Lay Dam is a hydroelectric power dam on the Coosa River in Chilton County and Coosa County, near Clanton, Alabama. [ 2] The concrete run-of-the-river gravity dam was built in 1914 as the first major project of Alabama Power Company, and named for Captain William Patrick Lay, its first president. The dam's hydroelectric facility has a generating ...
Waxahatchee Creek. Waxahatchee Creek is a 21.7-mile-long (34.9 km) [1] tributary of the lower Coosa River near Shelby, Alabama. [2] It forms the southeastern border between Shelby County and Chilton County, where it is crossed by Alabama State Route 145. The lower reaches of Waxahatchee Creek are broad and popular with water skiers and ...
Logan Martin Lake. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Logan Martin Lake is a reservoir located in east central Alabama on the Coosa River approximately 30 miles (48 km) east of Birmingham, Alabama. This 17,000-acre (69 km 2) reservoir was built in 1965 by Alabama Power Company. The lake, nicknamed Lake of a Thousand Coves by locals ...
The original site was submerged under Lay Lake with the 1914 construction of the Lay Dam 14 miles downstream. The headstones from the military cemetery were relocated from their original site in 2006 due to the development of a neighborhood. [14] The Fort Williams Cemetery was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on May 12 ...
Lamar County Lake is a 68-acre (280,000 m 2) lake located 8 miles (13 km) west of Vernon on Alabama State Route 18, then 5 miles (8 km) north off County Road 21. Lamar County is a prohibition or dry county. Madison County Lake is 105 acres (0.4 km 2) lake located 11 miles (18 km) east of Huntsville. Marion County Lake is a 37-acre (150,000 m 2 ...
510 ft (160 m) Islands. Goat Island. Lewis Smith Lake, also known as Smith Lake, is a reservoir in north Alabama. Located on the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River, it covers over 21,000 acres (85 km 2) [1] in Cullman, Walker, and Winston Counties. The maximum depth at the dam is 264 feet (80 m). It is the deepest lake in Alabama.
Sand Island Light, also known as Sand Island Lighthouse (and historical light station), is a decommissioned lighthouse located at the southernmost point of the state of Alabama, United States, near Dauphin Island, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. It is located roughly 3 mi (4.8 km) offshore from the primary Mobile Bay ...
The Heaven's Half Acre complex is a concentration of Paleoindian sites situated on a series of Pleistocene terraces overlooking a sinkhole in northeastern Colbert County, Alabama, near the town of Leighton. [ 1] Over one hundred and fifty fluted points have been recovered on these sites, making it one of the most dense fluted point localities ...