Explore the vibrant history of Smith Mountain Dam in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The construction of a dam in the gap of Smith Mountainin Pittsylvania County, Virginia, had been considered as early as the 1920s. However, the dam's construction did not begin until 1960.Smith Mountain Damclosed the gap completely in 1963, and Smith Mountain Lakebegan to fill and form behind it. The hydroelectric dam consists...