Sardis Lake
— the lake the Corps put down between two ridges.
Not only on a wall.
Sardis Lake, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A flood-control reservoir on the Little Tallahatchie River in north Mississippi, between the towns of Sardis and Oxford. The earthen dam was completed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1940. At summer pool the lake covers more than thirty thousand acres; through the spring crappie season the south-shore campgrounds stay full from Thursday through Sunday.
The place, in three passes.
Sardis Lake lies on the Little Tallahatchie River, mostly in Panola and Lafayette counties, about an hour south of Memphis and twenty minutes northwest of Oxford. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District built the earthen Sardis Dam between 1936 and 1940 as part of the Yazoo Basin Headwater Project, one of four flood-control reservoirs (with Enid, Grenada, and Arkabutla) on the Yazoo's upstream tributaries. At summer pool the lake covers about 32,500 acres; at full flood pool it rises to nearly 98,500.
Sardis is best known among Mississippi anglers for white crappie. The lake regularly produces fish in the two-pound class through the March-to-May spawn, and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks stocks and surveys it annually. Largemouth bass, channel catfish, and bream round out the warm-weather catch. Hurricane Landing on the north shore and the marina at John W. Kyle State Park on the south are the two main boat-access points, with several smaller Corps ramps in between.
John W. Kyle State Park, on the south shore near Sardis, runs a swimming beach, a marina, more than two hundred campsites, and a small set of rental cabins. The lower lake and the river below the dam are managed by the Corps of Engineers and carry their own fee schedule. Sardis is the closest of the four Yazoo Basin reservoirs to Memphis, which puts the south-shore campgrounds at capacity most weekends from May through Labor Day.
