Fifty years ago work was underway on a dam that would create Truman Lake. The locals were divided on whether the lake would help or destroy their economy.

Truman Dam was completed in 1979 after 25 years of planning, land acquisition, and construction. It produces power from six turbines. Photo Credit: Lisa ...

The resulting 55,600-acre Truman Lake created a diverse wildlife area rich in the history of Osage Indians, explorers, fur trappers, traders and white settlers.

Originally named Kaysinger Bluff Dam and Reservoir, construction began in August 1964. It was renamed the Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, in honor of the ...

Truman Reservoir is the largest flood control reservoir in Missouri, with a storage capacity of more than 5 million acre-feet.

14 авг. 2017 г. · By November, 1980, Truman Dam and Reservoir had a lake of some 55,600 acres. The lake extends at full flood stage into Benton, Henry, Hickory ...

The Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir began operation in 1979 and impounds the Osage and Grand rivers to extend facilities at the lake's western end. Read ...

Harry Truman Lake, also known as Truman Reservoir, is named after Missouri's favorite son who was born in Independence, about 100 miles away. Though the lake is ...

Construction on the Truman Dam Visitor Center began in 1975 and was completed in 1977 by Miller-Stauch Construction Company of Kansas City, Kansas.