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Buchanan Dam & Burnet Texas Area History

A small resort and retirement community
on the south shore of Lake Buchanan in the Texas Hill Country
burnet texas land for sale

Buchanan Dam was originally the site of a construction camp established to build the first of the major flood-control and power-generation facilities on the Colorado River.
  

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First known as Bluffton Dam after the nearby town of Bluffton, its name was changed to Hamilton Dam, probably because it had been surveyed in 1926 by an engineer named Hamilton. The Emery-Peck and Rockwood Development Company undertook the construction of the dam in 1931 and established a post office and a settlement of several hundred workers supported by commercial, medical and recreational facilities. In 1932 bankruptcy forced the closing of the project. United States Congressman James Paul Buchananqv secured federal funds to revive the project in 1934, whereupon the dam, post office and town were renamed
in his honor. The dam was dedicated
on October 16, 1937.
 
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