Cut Block Dam, Little Beaver State Park, Nr Beckley, WV
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garmin_geek
N 37° 45.285 W 081° 04.824
17S E 492917 N 4178607
Little Beaver State Park features an 18-acre lake, created by a cut rock dam nearly 50 years ago and offers fishing and seasonal boat rentals.
Waymark Code: WM5MG7
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 01/21/2009
Views: 9
The dam face is made of rough chiseled blocks roughly 2'x2'x4' of sandstone The stones were quarried locally across the roadway and within sight of the project. The face is stepped, with a spillway to the south end. A few metal pipes protrude from the spillway. A catch basin runs across the partial length of the dam, joining the spillway overflow and then running into a stone lined creek bed. The dam measures roughly 29 feet high and is 400 feet in length. To each side of the spillway and the catch basin, the dam wall steps up approximately three feet higher, than the spillway. The wall is approximately six feet in width and provides some direction for runoff during high water seasons. The dam is considered a contributing structure.
The Little Beaver Dam was the first public dam in Raleigh County. Constructed between 1938 and 1942, during the Great Depression, by the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, it has provided recreational facilities for Raleigh County.
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