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The Dale Hollow Reservoir is a reservoir situated on the Kentucky/Tennessee border. The lake is formed by the damming of the Obey River, 7.3 miles (11.7 km) above its juncture with the Cumberland River at river mile 380. Portions of the lake also cover the Wolf River.
Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park located on the Frogue Peninsula on the northern shore of Dale Hollow Reservoir in Clinton and Cumberland counties. [2] The park comprises 3,400 acres (1,400 ha).
The Obey River is a 47.8-mile-long (76.9 km) [2] tributary of the Cumberland River in the U.S. state of Tennessee. [3] It joins the Cumberland River near the town of Celina, which is generally considered to be the Cumberland's head of navigation.
The Wolf River is a 40.3-mile-long (64.9 km) [2] river in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Kentucky [3] that rises at the base of the Cumberland Plateau in Fentress County, Tennessee and flows westward for several miles before becoming part of Dale Hollow Lake.
Celina was founded in the 19th century and named after the daughter of local pioneer entrepreneur and educator, Moses Fisk.In the late 19th century, Celina prospered as a logging town, receiving logs that had been cut in the forests to the east and floated down the Obey River. [10]
Following the completion of Dale Hollow Dam in 1943, the town site was completely submerged by water following the impounding of the river, which created Dale Hollow Reservoir. [8] However, in 2008, a former employee of Kentucky's Trooper Island took an aerial photo of the school building's foundation on the bottom of the lake.
It is one of four major flood control reservoirs for the Cumberland; the others being Wolf Creek Dam, Dale Hollow Dam, and Center Hill Dam. [1] The Flood Control Act of 1946 commissioned the construction of a project under the name “Stewarts Ferry Reservoir”.
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