When icons like Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison chose to make Sumner County their home, undoubtedly a good part of their decision was based on Sumner’s Old Hickory Lake. These Music Legends both owned homes along the shore of its vast expanse.
With over 22,000 acres of water and 440 miles of shoreline, Old Hickory offers plenty of hiking, fishing, boating, skiing, and other lake activities.
Old Hickory Lake was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers beginning January, 1952. The dam was closed and the filling of the lake began June 11, 1954. The lock opened to navigation June 14, 1954 and electrical power began production April 5, 1957.
The total length of Old Hickory Dam is 3,750 feet and the elevation of the reservoir at maximum pool level, which covers an area of 22,500 acres, is 445 feet above sea level. The backwater length of the reservoir at the top of the gate level is 97.3 miles long. Old Hickory Reservoir at maximum pool has 440 miles of shoreline and contains 467,000 acre feet of water.
Old Hickory Dam is located on the Cumberland River at mile 216.2, and is in Davidson and Sumner Counties, Tennessee, 25.5 miles upriver from Nashville. The counties surrounding Old Hickory Lake include Davidson, Sumner, Wilson, Trousdale, and Smith Counties.
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