Dam: (
Satellite)
Upstream Flume Suspension Bridge: (see below for satellite)
Power House: (
Satellite, it was somewhere downstream of the falls)
"The first dam was completed in 1922. The dam was 26 feet high and 310 feet long and had a concrete section and an earthfill section with a concrete core wall. The project used the dam to divert the flow of the Falling Water River through a flume to a power house located below Burgess Falls. It had a 500 horse power turbine with a 360 kilowatt generator." The 1922 dam and power house were destroyed by a flood on Jun 29, 1928. Replacements were completed in Sep 1929. [
Cookeville]
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| Alex Mullins, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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"A new steel-reinforced-concrete dam and powerhouse were built in 1929, and
the plant operated continually until 1951, and its contents were sold for
salvage. In 1973, the City of Cookeville sold its interests in the property
to the State of Tennessee which has developed the domain as a state natural
area." [
nps, p19]
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Karen DeBruler, Released into the Public Domain
The falls is about 135' tall. |
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| Karen DeBruler, Released into the Public Domain |
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| Karen DeBruler, Released into the Public Domain |
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| Karen DeBruler, Released into the Public Domain |
The photos are of the northern bridge. If you look on the left side of the southern bridge, you can also see the suspension cables.
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