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Pickwick Tennessee & Hardin County Area History

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A Resort Area Community & The Ideal Place To Call Home

Pickwick Lake was created in December 1937 when the new dam was closed across the Tennessee River and flooded the farmland valley. The lake was dedicated June 2, 1940, and a crowd of 30,000 people gathered on the Pickwick south earth dam for the celebration.
    

On Aug. 20, 1935, the Tennessee Valley Authority's new dam was named after the Pickwick Post Office, which had been named by postmaster Richardson K. Baird in 1883. He changed the name of the newly established post office from "Broadway" to "Pickwick" in honor of the short story "Pickwick Papers," due to his fondness for the works of its author, Charles Dickens.
     

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TVA's Pickwick Village housed some 1,000 workers during construction and after completion, TVA donated the 661 acres of land to the State of Tennessee for the present Pickwick Landing State Park.
  
The park was opened in August 1972 and eight of the village houses remained for park employees.
  
In addition to its intended purposes--and the creation of the lake and ultimately the park--Pickwick Dam brought thousands of jobs to a depressed area.

At that time, the average household income in the rural area was $300 per year.
 
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