tva maower foreople.n pierce) the tva in this part of the country was an incredibly powerful bureaucracy. and if tva wanted to build a dam somewhere, tva built a dam, you know. but that did begin to change in the late 1960s. and a lot of that had to do with a tva plan to dam basically every tributary of the french broad river in a massive project. (david whitmire) in the late 50s, the dam machine raised its head in transylvania county. the tva had proposed a series of dams that basically started in mills river and come all the way up the watershed with a series dams thatould hav definily impounded [sic] many of the communities along the french broad, silenced the second oldest river in the world. (jere brittain) the communities affected, to name a few, would have been north, west, and east forks of the french broad, up in transylvania county. mills river, hoopers creek, cane creek, mud creek, little river, as well as the forks of ivy over in north buncombe. the swannanoa, which would have affected warren