The Hope Mills Dam also known as Hope Mills Dam #1 is a failed concrete dam on Little Rockfish Creek in Hope Mills North Carolina USA which created Hope Mills Lake. Three different dams were built on the site including the current one. The first dam of rock-crib design was built in 1839 to power local cotton mills. The second was an embankment dam built in 1924 for powering the mills and later to maintain the lake’s water level. Both previous dams failed from flooding.
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length (km)
228.6
building start year
2007-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
height (cm)
10.0584
vastest lake
Hope_Mills_Dam__1
location
Cumberland County North Carolina, Hope Mills North Carolina
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