Qualla: Yatesville Lake https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/0/yatesville-lake-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Yatesville Lake https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake Yatesville Lake: Introduction https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake/ Photo credit Buaidh, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before the water rose, Adams Cabin sat on a farmstead of several hundred acres along Blaine Creek, with eleven people sharing its rooms. Down the hollow, a small oil well pumped crude out of the Little Blaine Creek field, using the same drilling rig technology that had defined the turn of the twentieth century. Both still exist - the cabin disassembled and rebuilt at the project Information Center, the oil well equipment hauled up to the parking lot as an exhibit. Everything else from that valley is now under the 3.5 square miles of Yatesville Lake.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/0/yatesville-lake-wp/dnv0-yatesville-lake-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yatesville Lake: What the Dam Holds Back https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake/ Photo credit Buaidh, CC BY-SA 4.0. The earthen dam that creates Yatesville Lake rises 156 feet above the valley floor and stretches 855 feet across at its crest. The Army Corps of Engineers finished it in 1988, designed under the Flood Control Act of 1965, with a rockfill body wrapped around a central impervious c...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/0/yatesville-lake-wp/dnv0-yatesville-lake-what-the-dam-holds-back.mp3 0:06 2 full Yatesville Lake: The Shape of the Water https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake/ Photo credit Buaidh, CC BY-SA 4.0. Walk the shoreline at Yatesville Lake and you walk a long way. The boundary measures 93.9 miles at summer pool, doubling back into every inlet and cove the flooded valley left behind. The boatable arms extend 20.6 miles upstream from the dam, and the main lake reaches 18.1 miles ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/0/yatesville-lake-wp/dnv0-yatesville-lake-the-shape-of-the-water.mp3 0:06 3 full Yatesville Lake: Adams Cabin and the Eleven https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake/ Photo credit Buaidh, CC BY-SA 4.0. Adams Cabin was documented before it was moved. Built in the mid-nineteenth century, it had housed a farming family of eleven on land that ran along Blaine Creek for several hundred acres. When the Army Corps began acquiring the valley in the 1980s, the cabin was disassembled, re...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/0/yatesville-lake-wp/dnv0-yatesville-lake-adams-cabin-and-the-eleven.mp3 0:06 4 full Yatesville Lake: Wickets and Oil Wells https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake/ Photo credit Buaidh, CC BY-SA 4.0. Inside the Information Center, another exhibit explains the wicket dams - 53 of them built by the Corps of Engineers between 1875 and the turn of the century to canalize the Ohio River from Davis Island near Pittsburgh all the way to Cairo, Illinois. The wicket system raised and ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/0/yatesville-lake-wp/dnv0-yatesville-lake-wickets-and-oil-wells.mp3 0:06 5 full Yatesville Lake: Recreation Above the Old Valley https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake/ Photo credit Buaidh, CC BY-SA 4.0. Yatesville Lake State Park wraps the western shore, with an 18-hole golf course laid across the ridges that used to hold farmland. Fishing draws the steadiest visitors, with the long arms of the lake offering quiet water and cover. Hikers find trails through second-growth forest ...

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