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Hickory County
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Hickory County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. The county was
organized February 14, 1845 and named after President Andrew Jackson, whose nickname
was “Old Hickory.”
Pomme de Terre Lake is located in the rugged, tree-covered hills of the west
central Missouri Ozarks on the Pomme de Terre River. The Pomme de Terre Project was
Missouri River Basin. Project Planning was initiated in 1947 and actual construction began
in 1957. The lake was completed in 1961 at a cost of $14,946,784.
A multipurpose pool, Pomme de Terre Lake covers 7,820 acres and can expand
to as much as 16,100 acres during periods of heavy rain as excess runoff is impounded
Basin and the lower Missouri
and Mississippi Rivers. Other
management and water quality
improvement.
The phrase “Pomme
de Terre” is French for “Apple
of the Earth” or “potato”. The
Pomme de Terre River was
probably named after plants
that resembled potatoes that
grew on this banks. This plant
was probably an Apios Americana
or Potato Bean and was
used for food by the Indians.
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