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It was built near where Pine Flat Methodist Church now stands, and was made of logs.
In the fall of 1816, a party from the state of Georgia came to settle in Pine Flat, including Thomas Hill, Warren A. Thompson, Captain John Watts, and Benjamin Hill.
Several other trails intersected this road, and led to the growth settlement villages such as Pine Knot, Dripping Springs / Coolidge, and Flat Rock.
This CDP included the communities of Groveland, Big Oak Flat and Pine Mountain Lake ( PML ).
In 1938 and 1955, the lake flooded, which prompted the construction of the Terminus and Success Dams on the Kaweah and Tule Rivers in Tulare County and Pine Flat Dam on the Kings River in Fresno County.
In the foothills, the water from the river is impounded at Pine Flat Dam.
The Pine Flat Dam, built in 1954, impounds the river near Piedra as it flows out of the foothills into the Central Valley.
A second large dam on the Kings River, the Rogers Crossing Dam, was proposed for construction in the late 1980s, upstream from Pine Flat.
Further downstream, the Friant-Kern Canal crosses the Kings River approximately 10 miles west of Pine Flat Dam, where water can be turned out into the Kings River through the Kings River wasteway.
Poor Fork starts as a small stream on Pine Mountain ( Appalachian Mountains ) in Letcher County, KY near Flat Gap, VA.
When it reaches Pine Flat Lake near Trimmer, it turns north towards Tollhouse and continues on to Auberry.
Pine Flat Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Kings River of central California in the United States.
Situated about east of Fresno, the dam is high and impounds Pine Flat Lake, one of the largest reservoirs in California, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada just outside the boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
In 1937, the KRWA appealed to the federal government to provide financial aid and support the construction of a large dam at Pine Flat.
Starting in 1938, two government agencies – the USACE and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation ( USBR ) – fought it out for the construction of Pine Flat Dam.
Some area farmers were also against the integration of Pine Flat Dam into the CVP, as under " reclamation law " individual farmers could not receive more water than was necessary for the irrigation of.
The Flood Control Act of 1944 cemented this decision, authorizing the construction of four dams in the Tulare Lake basin of the San Joaquin Valley – Pine Flat, Terminus, Success and Isabella – as a USACE undertaking.
The president signed a bill appropriating preliminary funds for Pine Flat Dam on April 2, 1945, but only " reluctantly " and " the emphasis that he'd try to avoid dispensing any more money to the army for the dam ".
Roosevelt planned to take the Pine Flat issue to Congress, but never got the chance – he died of a brain hemorrhage just ten days later at his home in Georgia.
Unfortunately for the USACE, Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman, was also adamant that Pine Flat Dam be built for irrigation.
To further complicate the situation, Truman insisted that the USBR negotiate the contracts for irrigation water from Pine Flat Dam with KRWA farmers.
In a last-ditch effort to secure the Pine Flat project, the USBR revoked its acreage limit from the entirety of the Kings River service area and the Tulare Lake bed.
On February 18, 1947, the president released the funds, finally allowing construction on Pine Flat Dam to begin.
On May 27, 1947, the USACE held the groundbreaking ceremony for Pine Flat Dam, which was attended by more than 2, 000 people.
This was the last major flood event on the Kings River before the completion of Pine Flat Dam, which would have " prevented much damage … had been completed ".

Pine and main
It is integrated with the Pine e-mail client, which was designed by the main officer Aboli Kasar working in Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington.
* Pine Islands, an alternate common ( but informal ) name for the Pitiusic Islands, comprizing the two main islands of Ibiza and Formentera and their surrounding islets.
In addition to downtown Pine Bluff's main library, PBJCLS branch libraries can also be found in the city's Watson Chapel area, as well as in White Hall, Redfield, and Altheimer.
Image: Big Pine Key intersection. jpg | The main intersection on the island, where Key Deer Boulevard and Wilder Road fork off of US-1
On a positive note, future development in Pine Hills includes the re-construction of Maynard Evans High School's main campus on Silver Star Road.
West Colonial Drive, one of the main highways in Pine Hills, is currently undergoing reconstruction and promises to bring better traffic management and improved landscaping to Pine Hills.
La Pine was founded in the 19th century with Huntington Road as the main street.
He laid out along the main street which was the pre-existing Nine Mile Road, new cross streets named in alphabetical order after plants, beginning from the west: Ash, Beech, Cedar, Daisy, Elm, Fern, Grove, Holly, Ivy, Juniper, Kalmia, Linden, Maple, Oak, Pine, Quince, Rose, and Spruce.
Intersection of Pine Hollow Road and Fairhaven Road, two of the main thoroughfares in Kennedy
Looking west on Pine Hollow Road, Kennedy's main street
He will appear in the 2012 film Rise of the Guardians as one of the main characters being voiced by Chris Pine.
Pine martens have been featured in three books, once as the main villain and twice in the service of a wildcat.
The Myōkō Ski Area has nine main mountain resorts: Myōkō Akakura, Ikenotaira Onsen, Myōkō Suginohara ( which boasts the longest ski run in Japan ), Seki Onsen, Kyukamura, Myōkō Ski Park, APA resort Myōkō Pine Valley, Madarao Kogen and Tangram Ski Circus.
The main source of supply in Europe is the French district of Les Landes in the departments of Gironde and Landes, where the Maritime Pine P. pinaster is extensively cultivated.
The main part of the Australian position at Lone Pine was centred around a feature known as " The Pimple ", where a salient had developed at the point where the Australians ' position was closest to the Turkish line.
In early July 1915, while making plans for an offensive to break the deadlock that had developed around the Gallipoli Peninsula following the initial landings in April, the commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, Lieutenant General William Birdwood had determined that an attack at Lone Pine could be used to divert Turkish attention away from a main attack that would be launched further north around Sari Bair, Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
Even further north the range slopes up into the towering main crest of the San Gabriels, a sweeping arc-shaped massif in length that includes most of the highest peaks in the range: Waterman Mountain, at ; Mount Islip, at, Mount Baden-Powell, at, Pine Mountain, at, and finally Mount San Antonio, the highest peak in the range at.
The Pine Barrens, with its sandy soil, did not attract a permanent agriculture population ( whose main interest would have been to establish permanent boundaries for forest clearance ).
Along with its main studios, WBRE operates four news bureaus: Scranton ( on Lackawanna Avenue ), Stroudsburg ( Main Street ), Williamsport ( on Pine Street ), and Hazelton ( East 10th Street ).
The Myōkō Kōgen Ski Area is made up of nine main mountain resorts: Myōkō Akakura, Ikenotaira Onsen, Myōkō Suginohara ( which boasts the longest ski run in Japan ), Seki Onsen, Kyukamura, Myōkō Ski Park, APA resort Myōkō Pine Valley, Madarao Kogen and Tangram Ski Circus.
Also, a stub tunnel, branching from the main tunnel, was constructed under Pine Street between 7th and Boren Avenues to allow light rail trains to stop and reverse direction and for future extension of Central Link.
The National Park was selected as main motif for two high value euro collectors ' coins: the € 10 Greek Birds and Flowers and Black Pine Trees commemorative coins, minted in 2007.
Sixteen mile long Stringfellow Rd ( County Rd 767 ) is Pine Island's main road and connects St. James City on the south end of the island with Bokeelia and Pineland on the north side of the island.
The island community of Matlacha ( pronounced " MAT-la-shay ") is east of Little Pine Island and west of the city of Cape Coral on the main land.

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