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Interview with Delia Woodard Watkins

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Interview with Delia Woodard Watkins

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Delia Woodard Watkins, born in Swain County, was 16 when construction started on the Fontana Dam. The Fontana Dam, completed in 1945 by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is built on the Little Tennessee River and is located near Fontana Village in Graham County, North Carolina. Watkins discusses how Swain County residents were told the dam would help the World War II effort and people were initially supportive of the dam construction believing the power generated from the dam would help win the war. According to Watkins the TVA failed in its promise regarding the amount of power generated. Furthermore, the TVA took more land than needed to build the dam while amount of compensation paid to people who lost their land to dam construction was minimal.
Details
- Creator
  - Watkins, Delia Ann Woodard
- Contributor
  - Atzenhoffer, T. Rhydon
- Format
- Type
  - Sound
  - Text
- Date
  - Date interview: 2009-11-16
  - Date: 1930s; 1940s;
  - Date digitized: 2014-12-04
- Extent
  - Duration: 0:35:05
- Subject - Topic
- Location
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574
- Identifier
  - HL_HIST474_Atzenhoffer_Watkins_2009-11-16_audio
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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Delia Woodard Watkins, born in Swain County, was 16 when construction started on Fontana Dam. The dam, completed in 1945 by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is built on the Little Tennessee River and is located near Fontana Village in Graham County, North Carolina. Watkins discusses how Swain County residents were told the dam would help the World War II effort and people were initially supportive of the dam construction believing the power generated from the dam would help win the war. According to Watkins, the TVA failed in its promise regarding the amount of power generated. Furthermore, the TVA took more land than needed to build the dam while amount of compensation paid to people who lost their land to dam construction was minimal.
Details
- Creator
  - Watkins, Delia Ann Woodard
- Contributor
  - Atzenhoffer, T. Rhydon
- Format
  - Sound recordings
  - Interviews
- Type
  - Sound
- Date
  - Date interview: 2009-11-16
  - Date: 1930s; 1940s;
  - Date digitized: 2014-12-04
- Extent
  - Duration: 00:35:05 (sound recording)
  - Duration: 10 pages (transcript)
- Subject - Topic
- Location
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574
- Identifier
  - HL_HIST474_Atzenhoffer_Watkins_2009-11-16
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

Interview with Delia Woodard Watkins

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