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Norris Dam stretches across a wide river, with a road running along the top and a power station below, surrounded by forested hills in East Tennessee. Norris Dam
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Norris Dam stretches across a wide river, with a road running along the top and a power station below, surrounded by forested hills in East Tennessee.
Norris Dam Norris Dam, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, Tennessee.

Norris

Tennessee, United States
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Norris, city, Anderson county, eastern Tennessee, U.S. It lies along the Clinch River, about 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Knoxville. Built in 1933–34 by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to accommodate construction workers on the Norris (originally Cove Creek) Dam, the company town was sold by public auction in 1948 to private investors. Properties were broken up and resold to individuals, and Norris was incorporated as a city in 1949. Norris Dam (1936; the...

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