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Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .
Defeated Creek, Kentucky. 1 language. ... A post office was established at Defeated Creek in 1909, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1943. [2]
The lakes run parallel courses for more than 50 miles (80 km), with the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area located between them. Lake Barkley is 134 miles (216 km) long with a shoreline measuring 1,004 miles (1,616 km).
Defeated Creek is a stream in Letcher County, Kentucky, in the United States. [ 1 ] According to tradition, Defeated Creek was so named when pioneer hunters were robbed of their fur pelts by Indians at the site.
Lake Barkley Bridge is a four-lane basket handle tied-arch bridge in western Kentucky carrying U.S. Route 68, Kentucky Route 80, and a multi-use path across Lake Barkley, permitting access from the east to the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. It is illuminated with LED lights.
Lake Barkley Lock and Dam, impounding Lake Barkley. Barkley Dam is a dam along the Cumberland River in Kentucky.Its construction along with Kentucky Dam formed the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (LBLNRA) by stopping the flow of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, forming Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake respectively.
Take a drive down the roads that snake along much of the creek’s bank — KY-550 and 476 — and you’ll see dozens more patches of bottomland like Smith’s.
The recreation area is situated on an inland peninsula between Kentucky Lake (the Tennessee River) and Lake Barkley (the Cumberland River). [6] It passes through the sites of the defunct towns of Tharpe and Model , the latter of which is home to the remnants of an old furnace, as well as the 1850s Homeplace living history farm before the road ...