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Lake Tawakoni

  Texas Historical Markers
SH 276 at Tomahawk Road, West Tawakoni, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 54' 15.43672000008", -96° 0' 23.41666000008"
 
    Texas State
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     One of the largest lakes wholly within Texas. Completed 1960, it covers 36,700 acres. Impounded by 5.5-mile-long iron bridge dam on Sabine River, it has a shore line of 200 miles. Constructed and owned by the Sabine River Authority of Texas. Financed by city of Dallas under terms of a water supply contract. Other towns also buy lake's water. Prehistoric animal bones and remains of a Tawakoni Indian village were discovered here. Lake is operated under Iron Bridge Division, S. R. A. of Texas. It embraces Wind Point Park, a public recreational resort.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Lake Tawakoni Historical Marker Location Map, West Tawakoni, Texas