Byrd Lake

 

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We are fortunate to have Cumberland Mountain State Park near us — just outside the Crossville city limits.

The park was established by the federal government is 1938 and the Civilian Conservation Corp began construction on the park’s structures.  The biggest structure at the park was the stone brigand dam that fired Byrd Lake.  That bridge, in fact, was the largest structure made by the CCC.   Cumberland Mountain became a Tennessee state park in 1940;

I got the above picture while walking along a portion of Byrd Lake .