Lenoir City Sites

Fort Loudon Dam is one of many New Deal dams built by the Tennessee Valley Authority: "In the mid-1930s, TVA drafted its "unified plan," a series of long-term goals that called for the construction of a series of dams along the Tennessee River to provide a minimum 9-foot (2.7 m) navigation channel along the entire length of the river, control flooding in the Tennessee Valley, and bring electricity to the area. The Fort Loudoun project was initially known as a the Coulter Shoals project, named for a site identified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 6 miles (9.7 km) upstream from the...

"The Lenoir City Post Office is one of the state's most unadorned New Deal buildings as fa as its exterior style...the building's hipped roof, symmetrical five-bay facade, and understated classical entrance merely hint at Colonial Revival style" (Van West, 2001, p. 65). The post office contains the New Deal mural "Electrification" by David Stone Martin. Completed in 1940, this was "an appropriate location since TVA was then constructing the mammoth Fort Loudon Dam a mere couple of miles away" (Van West, 2001, p. 66).

This 1940 mural "Electrification" by David Stone Martin was a winner of the Treasury Section's 48-State Post Office Mural competition.