Lake Cumberland landmark officially named ‘Sid Bell Falls’

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Lake Cumberland landmark officially named ‘Sid Bell Falls’

Lake Cumberland Resource Manager Jon Friedman (Left), Marina at Rowena General Manager David Dyson, and Stacey Bell pose Aug. 5, 2022, next to the new “Sid Bell Falls” sign on the shoreline of the lake in Watauga, Kentucky. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District officially named the landmark after Stacey’s grandfather Sid Bell who owned the land and operated a gristmill before the Corps of Engineers purchased the property when constructing Wolf Creek Dam. (USACE Photo by Lee Roberts)

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