Dam and lake in Northfork movie subconsciously influenced (consciously?) by Norfolk Lake (or Lake Norfolk) in Baxter County, Arkansas, which flooded a hamlet called *Hand*. Check here for original blog information on this location, and connection with a “hand map” of same county. Queer indeed. Hand connected to 4H of heart, head, hand, health, all locations or former locations in Arkanasas. Indeed, just below Baxter County lies Hand Valley, which has variant name of Head Valley, combining 2 of 4 4H aspects. The hand map’s index finger is pointing directly to this anomaly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfork_Dam
Built on the North Fork River, Norfork Dam was one of the six largest concrete dams in the country at the time of its construction.
Clyde T. Ellis, who defeated Claude Fuller in 1938 to become the representative for the third district, envisioned a smaller Arkansas version of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Ellis made Norfork Dam his personal project and fought for it until construction began in the spring of 1941. Having won the election with the promise of cheap hydroelectricity, he hoped the dams would give rise to industry and lift the region out of the depths of depression.
The completion of the dam had an immediate effect; with freedom from the fear of floods many people began to reoccupy farms downstream of the dam. Ironically the areas most affected by seasonal flooding were those covered by the reservoir, and the dam had little effect on flooding of the White River. However, not everyone was happy with the construction of the dam, nearly four-hundred people had to be removed from one of the most heavily populated and prosperous regions of Baxter County to make room for the reservoir. The government only paid people for their land if they had structures on it. As a result many people did not get paid for their land when it was covered. In fact, one man who thought he had lake front property paid taxes on it until 2004 when he realized that his property was underwater (Andrewson).
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/baxter/cemeteries/hand.txt
The Hand Cemetery is located at Halls Chapel, 1/4 mile beyond Jordan
on the Jordan Landing road, which is Baxter County Road #64. The ACE
named it New Hand Cemtery in their files.The Hand Cemetery is located along Hand Road in NW 1/4 Township 19 N.
R-11 W. This cemetery was extablished by the Army Corp of Engineers
during the construction of Lake Norfork Dam and contains burials from
the Kerley Cemetery, which contained 3 marked and 13 unmarked graves,
the Etheridge Cemetery which contained 8 marked graves and the
original Hand Cemetery, which contained 115 marked and 5 unmarked
graves.
Sunklands 