The Hales Bar Dam was built between 1905-1913 by the Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power Company to develop hydroelectric power, according to the Missouri University of Science and Technology. A ...

By 1913, construction on Hales Bar Dam had blown its budget and its deadline. Scheduled to open in 1907 at a cost of $2 million, the dam didn't open until five years later, and it racked up a $10 ...

Submerged under the waters of Nickajack Lake on the Tennessee River below the site of the predecessor to Nickajack Dam, Hales Bar Dam, lies the historical and equally important archaeological lost ...