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  • July

    Herb Thomasson, master pilot of the Iroquois, watches as Dale Raines, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District chief engineer assigned to the Iroquois, applies riprap July 22, 2021 along the shoreline of Old Hickory Lake to mitigate erosion near the Rock Castle Slave Cemetery in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District's Maintenance Support Team reshaped the embankment and laid down riprap July 19-22, 2021 where water had been undercutting the shoreline. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

    Old Hickory Lake shoreline project addresses erosion nearby slave cemetery

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (July 23, 2021) – Maintenance personnel onboard the Motor Vessel Iroquois removed vegetation and stabilized a section of shoreline on Old Hickory Lake this week to address erosion issues nearby the historic Rock Castle Slave Cemetery, an important cultural resource in the community.

  • May

    Officials with the Tennessee Health Department, Sumner County Health Department, Sumner County, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District dedicate a .5-mile exercise trail May 25, 2021 at Rockland Recreation Area on the shoreline of Old Hickory Lake. The ribbon cutting culminated a joint effort to construct a loop fitness trail to provide a pathway for people to safely exercise at the USACE-operated project. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Officials dedicate paved exercise trail at Rockland Recreation Area

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (May 28, 2021) – Officials dedicated a .2-mile paved exercise trail May 25, 2021 at Rockland Recreation Area on the shoreline of Old Hickory Lake.
  • Zona Ash, office administrator at the Old Hickory Lake Resource Manager’s Office in Hendersonville, Tennessee, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for March 2021. She is seen here May 11, 2021 working in the office’s file room. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Ash named Nashville District Employee of the Month for March 2021

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 14, 2021) – Zona Ash, office administrator at the Old Hickory Resource Manager’s Office in Hendersonville, Tennessee, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Employee of the Month for March 2021. She is recognized primarily for her efforts to reduce obsolete materials and reorganize the file room.

  • October

    Patrick Sheehan, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency director, speaks during a quarterly Tennessee Silver Jackets meeting with federal, state and local partners at the TEMA Headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 31, 2017. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Mansker Basin study to support flood preparedness

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 31, 2017) – The Tennessee Silver Jackets team announced today that a one-year study of the Mansker Basin is underway to develop real-time simulation modeling for Sumner and Davidson Counties and the cities of Nashville, Millersville, Goodlettsville and Hendersonville.

  • May

    A group of students and teachers from Martin Luther King, Maplewood, Hillsboro, and Nashville School of the Arts High schools and four college students from Tennessee State University during their visit May 4. A team of engineering professionals from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District welcomed the group for a Corps career overview and tour of the Old Hickory Lock and Dam in Hendersonville, Tenn.

    STEM students learn about engineering on dam tour

    OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (May 18, 2017) – A team of engineering professionals from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District recently welcomed area high school and college students for a Corps career overview and tour of the Old Hickory Lock and Dam in Hendersonville, Tenn.

  • March

    Maj. Christopher Burkhart, Nashville District deputy commander (right) Charles Nissen a sophomore student from Montgomery Bell Academy (center) and Lt. Col. Stephen L. Murphy, Nashville District commander, pose for a photo after Nissen receives a brief on the district. Nissen, a sophomore student from Montgomery Bell Academy spent the day shadowing U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District engineers.

    Prep student shadows district personnel for a day of engineering

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 6, 2017) – A local high school sophomore shadowed a number of very experienced engineers today at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District to learn more about the jobs and educational requirements of the career field.

  • December

    (L to R) Jerry Breznican, Nashville District Emergency Management Branch chief talks with Kevin L. Jasper, acting chief, Programs and Prject Delivery Branch at the Cumberland River Operations Center at OId Hickory Lock and Dam in Hendersonville, Tenn., during Crisis Action Team training.

    Team prepares for the worst with emergency management training

    OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (Dec. 2, 2015) – The Cumberland River Operations Center at OId Hickory Lock and Dam in Hendersonville, Tenn., recently served as a training ground for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Crisis Action Team.

  • November

    Henry Mare works on a soldering station Nov. 24, 2014 at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Hydropower Branch's Electronics Service Section located at Old Hickory Dam in Hendersonville, Tenn. Mare recently transitioned out of the U.S. Army at Fort Campbell, Ky., and has been working as an intern. The Corps recently selected him for a position as an electronics technician.

    Fort Campbell soldier embraces future with Nashville District

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 24, 2014) – A Fort Campbell soldier and electronics technician who sustained multiple injuries during deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan is making the most of an internship and job opportunity with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District.

  • February

    Will Garner, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District power house operator, explains to a group of students from Nashville General Hospital School of Radiology at Murrey Medical College how water passes through generating units using a gravity-fed system at Old Hickory Dam in Hendersonville, Tenn., Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014.

    Old Hickory hydropower sparks interest of medical students

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 6, 2014) – Seventeen students from Nashville General Hospital School of Radiology at Murrey Medical College received a hands-on review of principles in electricity when they took an in-depth tour of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Old Hickory Lock and Dam.

  • September

    Student Conservation Association team member’s (left to right) Alison Richardson, Darrel Thompson, Erica Nicolay, and Roy Cazares prepare the evergreen fish attractors by attaching concrete weights to the tree bundles at Old Hickory Lake’s Lone Branch Recreation Area in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., Aug. 27, 2013.

    Corps creates new fish habitats at Old Hickory Lake

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 3, 2013) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Old Hickory Lake and members of the Student Conservation Association made a splash Aug. 27 when they installed the remaining fish attractors made possible by Old Hickory Lake’s Christmas Tree Recycling Program.

  • May

    Park Ranger Amy Redmond shows a corn snake to a student from Hawkins Middle School during a presentation about snakes in Tennessee. There were 11 learning stations that kids rotated between on Environmental Awareness Day at Old Hickory Lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District sponsors events like this to draw awareness to subjects in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

    Students get ‘hands on’ environmental lessons at Old Hickory Lake

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (May 7, 2013) – About 150 sixth-grade students from Hawkins Middle School received “hands-on” environmental lessons today on the shoreline of Old Hickory Lake.

  • September

    Water safety goes commando

    HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 23, 2011) – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Park Rangers Trey Church and Noel Smith presented a water safety message today during the homecoming football game of the Hendersonville High School Commandos.

  • February

    ‘Fishin Affliction’ hooks up with Corps on water safety

    NASHVILLE, Ten. (Feb. 17, 2011) – Fishin Affliction, a popular regional fishing show, is hooking up with the Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District to lure audiences into thinking about water safety during the upcoming recreational season.