Grenada Dam

Grenada Dam is the last of four hill-country dams the Army Corps of Engineers built to protect the Delta, a plan born in the Great Flood of 1927. Rather than hold the rivers on the flat Delta floor, engineers dammed four streams where they leave the hills: the Coldwater at Arkabutla, the Tallahatchie at Sardis, the Yocona at Enid and the Yalobusha here, partly because building in the loess and red clay hills was easier. Grenada Lake began operating in 1954 at a cost of about thirty-two million dollars. At normal pool it is the largest lake in Mississippi.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Grenada Freedom Movement Marker — 2.5 mi
  The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at Line and Green streets for the 1966 Grenada movement, when Black children entering white schools were beaten by a mob and 13 white men were arrested.
• Holly Springs National Forest — 12 mi
  A patchwork national forest of about 155,000 acres in the north Mississippi hills, assembled in the 1930s from worn-out cotton fields and replanted in pine by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
• Carroll County Courthouse — 22 mi
  The courthouse in Carrollton where, on 17 March 1886, armed white men fired into a courtroom and killed about two dozen Black people, and no one was ever charged.
• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 22 mi
  Two Freedom Trail stops in Winona for 9 June 1963, when Fannie Lou Hamer and other voting-rights workers were arrested at the bus depot and beaten in the Montgomery County Jail.

More markers nearby

• Grenada Blues — 2.4 mi
• Edward C. Walthall — 2.7 mi
• Magic Slim — 2.9 mi
• Magic Sam — 3.6 mi