This lake was formed when the Tellico Dam was built in the 1970's on the Little Tennessee River. The dam almost wasn't built, because of a small endangered fish called the snail darter. A lawsuit brought against the Tennessee Valley Authority to save the fish went all the way to the Supreme Court. The dam was finished only because congress exempted it from the Endangered Species Act in 1979.
The lake inundated the site of Tuskegee, a Cherokee village that was the reputed birthplace of Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet.
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