Harrison Bay State Park
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Harrison Bay State Park is a 1200 acres (4.9 km²) demonstration park TVA
built in the 1930s along the shores of Chickamauga Lake
. The bay gets it names from the now partially submerged town of Harrison, Tennessee
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Activities offered at the park include camping, fishing, biking, boating, hiking, and swimming.
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...
built in the 1930s along the shores of Chickamauga Lake
Chickamauga Lake
Chickamauga Lake is a United States reservoir along the Tennessee River created when the Chickamauga Dam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was completed in 1940. The lake stretches from Watts Bar Dam at mile 529.9 to Chickamauga Dam at mile 471.0 making the lake 58.9 miles long...
. The bay gets it names from the now partially submerged town of Harrison, Tennessee
Harrison, Tennessee
Harrison is a census-designated place in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 7,769 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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Activities offered at the park include camping, fishing, biking, boating, hiking, and swimming.