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On a muggy September day in 1959, North Carolina governor Luther Hodges set off the first charge of dynamite for the Cowan\'s Ford Dam project.
Journalist and historian Chuck McShane traces the triumphs and troubles of Lake Norman from the region\'s colonial beginnings to its modern incarnation..
Over the years, the area around Lake Norman transformed from a countryside of cornstalks and cattle fields to an elite suburb full of luxurious subdivisions and thirty-five-foot sailboats.
The project was the culmination of James Buchanan Duke\'s dream of an electrified South and the beginning of the region\'s future.
The dam channeled Catawba River waters into the largest Lake in North Carolina: Lake Norman.
On a muggy September day in 1959, North Carolina governor Luther Hodges set off the first charge of dynamite for the Cowan\'s Ford Dam project