At 71,000 acres (287 km²), it is the third-largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi River, behind the Kentucky Lake on the Tennessee River and Lake Marion on the Santee River.
After completion, Tom and Marsha plan to launch the boat in Kentucky Lake, then take the Tombigbee waterway to the Gulf of Mexico, then on to see the world.
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Camp Roy C. Manchester is located on the shores of Kentucky Lake near Aurora.
Broster and his colleagues at the Division of Archaeology have been heavily involved in archaeological research along the Cumberland River and in the Kentucky Lake Region of Tennessee.