Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2013
This is the Hales Bar Dam power plant building in Haletown, Tenn., taken from across the Tennessee River at the crumbling navigation lock, Dec. 19, 2013, on the bank of the Tennessee River in Jasper, Tenn. Hales Bar Dam opened in 1913 and the project was the first to provide hydropower in the world. The dam ceased operations in 1968 when Nickajack Dam opened a few miles downstream. One......
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2013
This is the Hales Bar Dam power plant building in Haletown, Tenn., taken from across the Tennessee River at the crumbling navigation lock, Dec. 19, 2013, on the bank of the Tennessee River in Jasper, Tenn. Hales Bar Dam opened in 1913 and the project was the first to provide hydropower in the world. The dam ceased operations in 1968 when Nickajack Dam opened a few miles downstream. One......
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2013
This is the Hales Bar Dam power plant building in Haletown, Tenn., taken from across the Tennessee River at the crumbling navigation lock, Dec. 19, 2013, on the bank of the Tennessee River in Jasper, Tenn. Hales Bar Dam opened in 1913 and the project was the first to provide hydropower in the world. The dam ceased operations in 1968 when Nickajack Dam opened a few miles downstream. One......
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2013
This is the crumbling Hales Bar Navigation Lock Dec. 19, 2013, on the bank of the Tennessee River in Jasper, Tenn. Hales Bar Dam opened in 1913 and the project was the first to provide hydropower in the world. The dam ceased operations in 1968 when Nickajack Dam opened a few miles downstream. One hundred years later, the region looks back and remembers life at Hales Bar Dam and Navigation......
Photo by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2013
Earl Keeler tours the decommissioned Hales Bar Navigation Lock Dec. 19, 2013, in Jasper, Tenn. Keeler, a former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District employee, served as a lock operator at Hales Bar from 1960 until the lock ended operations in 1968. He then worked at Nickajack Navigation Lock just downstream until his retirement in 1983. Hales Bar Dam opened in 1913 and the project......
Photo by Fred Tucker | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2013
Earl Keeler, 91, (right) retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District lock operator thanks just recently retired Nickajack Lock lockmaster and old friend Butch Witcher for arranging their Dec. 19, 2013, visit to the 100-year-old Hales Bar Lock site where Keeler worked from 1960 until its closing in 1967. Keeler then transferred to Nickajack Lock where he helped train Witcher in......
Photo by Fred Tucker | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2013
Earl Keeler, 91, (left) retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District lock operator, sits for a videotaped interview, Dec. 19, 2013, on the landside of the now closed Hales Bar Lock he operated from 1960 to 1967. Keeler’s visit to the now closed 100-year-old lock was arranged by the just recently retired Nickajack Lock lockmaster, Butch Witcher, who Keeler helped train at Nickajack......
Photo by Fred Tucker | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2013
Earl Keeler, 91, (right) retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District lock operator, points to the building at the 100-year-old Hales Bar Dam site where he worked from 1960 until its closing in 1967. At left is the just recently retired Nickajack Lock lockmaster, Butch Witcher, who Keeler helped train at Nickajack Lock in 1980. Witcher arranged the Dec. 19, 2013, visit for his......
