Historic Place

Tyler Hydraulic-Fill Dam

Tyler · Smith County · Dedicated 1977 · THC Atlas #2077001543

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About this site

Tyler Hydraulic-Fill Dam is a historic place in Tyler, Smith County, dedicated in 1977. It is one of 17 historic places documented in Smith County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 272 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 32.3315, -95.3688 near Tyler. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hudson Cemetery (cemetery), about 1.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include Tyler Memorial, Pleasant Retreat, and Smith County.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2077001543. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

The Tyler Hydraulic-Fill Dam is an earthen dam across Indian Creek, southwest of Tyler, built in 1894 to impound water for the Tyler Water Works and forming what is now Bellwood Lake. Its builders used an innovative hydraulic-fill method to sluice sand and clay into a roughly 575-foot-long, 32-foot-high embankment. The dam supplied Tyler's domestic water and fire protection until Lake Tyler and a new treatment plant came online around 1950, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Sources: tshaonline.org cityoftyler.org

📍 32.3315, -95.3688 · Tyler, Smith County

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Pleasant Retreat United Methodist Church