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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateWho doesn't love a Flashback Friday post? The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority of Texas certainly agrees and did just that with a post sharing images from the 1966 picnic celebration.About 3,000 people joined in April of that year for a barbecue to dedicate the dam's construction, which had actually been completed two years earlier.The dam was built as a flood control measure in the 1960s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The river authority contributed toward the cost of the dam's construction and pays the Corps for a portion of the dam's annual operation and maintenance costs, according to theThe Corps estimates that millions of dollars in flood damage has been averted since 1964, but the reservoir of water has also created recreational and real estate opportunities throughout the region.The Canyon Lake dam spurred people to buy property and build bigger, more expensive homes all along the Guadalupe, according to theMore for youSee photos of the dam's construction and fun scenes at the lake in the gallery above.

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateWho doesn't love a Flashback Friday post? The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority of Texas certainly agrees and did just that with a post sharing images from the 1966 picnic celebration.About 3,000 people joined in April of that year for a barbecue to dedicate the dam's construction, which had actually been completed two years earlier.The dam was built as a flood control measure in the 1960s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The river authority contributed toward the cost of the dam's construction and pays the Corps for a portion...

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