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Badin Historic District: Badin Historic District: October 12, 1983 : Roughly bounded by NC 740, Pine St., and the country club property line: Badin: 3: Thomas Marcellus Denning House: Thomas Marcellus Denning House: January 24, 2011 : 415 N.
Badin Lake is one of a series of lakes created by the damming of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River in the Uwharrie Lakes Region of the United States. The Badin Lake Dam was built in 1917 to support local aluminum smelting plant, Alcoa , and the associated community of Badin was named for the founder, Adrien Badin.
The Narrows Reservoir, commonly called Badin Lake, reaches a depth of 190 feet (58 m) and occupies 5,350 acres (2,170 ha). [4] To generate additional hydroelectric power, in 1919, the company constructed Falls Dam downriver of Badin and High Rock Dam upriver in 1927. High Rock Lake, at 15,180 acres (6,140 ha), was the largest lake on the Yadkin ...
The property is walking distance from all of the downtown shops, restaurants and trendy workout joints (where you can "throw on your Lululemon and work it off," of course).
The community was developed by the Southern Aluminum Company of America, later Alcoa, with Badin developed for white residents. Notable buildings include the Badin Hospital (c. 1920), Badin Elementary School (c. 1920), 24 Henderson Street (c. 1916-1917), 28-30 Henderson Street duplex (1914), 27-33 Boyden Street quadruplex (1913-1914), Badin ...
Badin is located on the south end of Badin Lake which is a reservoir formed by damming the Yadkin River. North Carolina Highway 740 passes through the town. Albemarle is four miles to the southwest and New London is six miles to the northwest.
The dam and power plant were built in 1917 by Alcoa to support the Badin plant. At the time of its completion, the Narrows Dam was the world's highest overflow type dam. The Narrows power plant is a one-story building nine bays wide with a gable roof and six-foot raised monitor roof .
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