| Pickwick Landing Dam | |
|---|---|
 Pickwick Landing Dam from upstream | |
| Official name | Pickwick Landing Dam |
| Location | Pickwick Dam, Hardin County, Tennessee, United States |
| Coordinates | 35°03′50″N 88°14′50″W / 35.06389°N 88.24722°W |
| Construction began | March 1935 |
| Opening date | May 8, 1938 |
| Operator(s) | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Impounds | Tennessee River |
| Height | 113 ft (34 m) |
| Length | 7,715 ft (2,352 m) |
| Reservoir | |
| Creates | Pickwick Lake |
Pickwick Landing Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Hardin County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The dam is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1930s as part of a New Deal-era initiative to create a continuous navigation channel between the river's mouth and Knoxville, and bring economic development to the area. The dam impounds the 43,100-acre (17,400 ha) Pickwick Lake and its tailwaters are part of Kentucky Lake.
Pickwick Landing Dam is named for a community situated near the dam site at the time of construction. The community had been named after the title character in the Charles Dickens novel, The Pickwick Papers.[1]
- ^ Tennessee Valley Authority, The Pickwick Landing Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Pickwick Landing Project, Technical Report No. 3 (Knoxville, Tenn.: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1941), pp. 1-11, 20, 249, 257, 272, 289.