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DONATE: https://crc.kindful.com/?campaign=1038309 If you would like to follow along with the presenter's slides you can do so here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iqx5oUMhiVIo0OS59zOaPl0gnfK7nYZm/view Annual flooding was a fact of life that early settlers had to contend with. As early as 1841, concerned Nashville citizens were holding meetings to develop a plan to construct a canal and a lock and dam above the city  to improve navigation, create water power for manufacturing, and decrease flooding.  The  editors of “The Nashville Daily Gazette” called for finding a way to “arrest the annual destruction of property, and the distress and misery”  caused by flooding.  The responsibility for doing this fell to the  Army Corps of Engineers.  After the Civil War,  the Corps  began to consider ways to make the channel of the river deeper for year-round navigation and prevent flooding  that included building a series of locks and dams  that could be raised and lowered as needed.  Thus began the taming of the Cumberland. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecompact/message