Call "Moose" at
Ferguson Realtors and he will help you find the waterfront property
you have been looking for. Listing and selling lake properties
for several years, "Moose" knows the area and can find that special
property on one of the lakes surrounding Knoxville.
If you are looking for the perfect retirement or vaction home on
Norris Lake, Call Moose at 1-800-747-0713.
About
Norris Lake
Along
the 800 miles of shoreline, there are two state wildlife management
areas, three state parks, boat docks, county parks, and public
access areas. Norris extends 56 miles up the Powell River and 72
miles up the Clinch River. The lake has a surface area of more
than 34,000 acres and over 800 miles of shoreline. Located in an
area of ridges and valleys, its abounds in secluded coves. In some
of these wooded coves-Cove Lake, Big Ridge and the area around
Norris Dam-TVA established demonstration public parks, which later
became the nucleus of Tennessee’s state park system. The
first dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority created Norris
Lake. A hydroelectric dam whose construction was completed in 1936.
The dam is 265 feet high and 1,860 feet long. It contains a million
cubic yards of concrete. Three years later, its completion helped
moderate the disastrous Ohio and Mississippi River flood of 1937.
The giant drum gates at the top of the spillway were raised for
the first time to impound waters that would have swelled a flood
more than 600 miles away. Norris has the largest flood control
storage of any TVA dam on a tributary of the Tennessee 1,473,000-acre
feet