- City:
- Sardis, MS
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Lakes and Ponds, Flood and Erosion Control, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal & Military Operations, Army Corps of Engineers
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1942
Description
“…the vast New Deal flood-control project (1938-42) that dammed the Tallahatchie River and created Sardis Lake, an artificial reservoir that covered hundreds of square miles in western Lafayette and eastern Panola counties. The dam itself was a giant, mile-long mound of earth, one of the world’s largest, with sculpturally modernist steel and concrete elements framing the spillway and the water level control towers” (Hines, 1996, p. 112). Later, the Sardis State Park was added. The site was renamed the John W. Kyle State Park and Dam, though the name Sardis Lake is still used as well.
Source notes
Hines, T. S. (1996). William Falkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory. "John W. Kyle State Park (originally Sardis Lake State Park)." Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=facts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardis_Lake_%28Mississippi%29Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 8, 2014.
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