250th Celebration Facts: Carvin’s Cove
Carvin’s Cove
Today’s 250th Anniversary Facts concerns the 2nd largest Aquifer in the United States, Carvin’s Cove.
It was named after the Carvin family and specifically, William Carvin who had a cabin in the area on a 150 acre land grant on Carvin’s Creek. He is listed numerous times for being a leading citizen in Stoner’s book, “The Seed-Bed of the Republic : Early Botetourt.”
We are talking back in the days when Botetourt and yes even the Hollins area, was the Wild West of a budding United States of America. It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Fighting the native populations was part of survival back then. A new country to explore and soon the colonies forged a Revolution.
Carvin’s Cove supplies water as a reservoir for the Roanoke Valley but is jointly in Roanoke and Botetourt Counties. It is a place of recreation as well. You can hike, fish, paddle board and boat and even picnic there. Costs $3 per person to get in and another $3 to fish
You cannot swim there!
Tinker Creek tunnel under Tinker Mountain was opened in 1966 and diverts water from Tinker Creek in Botetourt into the Carvin’s Cove reservoir.
You can find many more facts about Carvin’s Cove with a quick google of the Western Virginia Water Authority or visit Outdoors Roanoke or Carvin’s Cove on FB.
Cathy Benson, The Botetourt Bee and photo, too
Sources, “Seed-Bed of the Republic,” by Robert Douhat Stoner, Western Virginia Water Authority, Outdoors Roanoke
