Natural feature
Percy Priest Lake
Reservoir on the Stones River ringed by wooded shoreline, marinas, and the dry traces of a river town it never quite drowned.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Percy Priest Lake near Nashville follows the working river town of Jefferson, and the trades that ran it before the dam came: watermen, a ferryman at the old Stewarts Ferry crossing, millers, blacksmiths, and a family grocery on the square. It picks up in nineteen sixty-three, when Army Corps of Engineers surveyors arrived with appraisal papers and a different kind of job, and follows what happened to the farmers and merchants who were bought out. Listen for the old road traces in the woods above the shoreline as you look out over the water.
This audio guide was created using AI.