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The Great Kanawha Navigation: H, 1876-1881, 1898, 1932-1940, 1985-ca. 2000 (Includes facsimiles)

 File — Box: 42

Scope and Contents

The USACE appointed Kemp to document locks and dams along the Kanawha River and nominate them for the NRHP. Kemp’s research culminated in the book, The Great Kanawha Navigation. This box contains materials from his research, including facsimile drawings, illustrations, reports, license applications, correspondence, photos, negatives, a manuscript, a floppy disk, clippings, and captions list and revision notes for the text The Great Kanawha Navigation. Subjects include William P. Craighill, Chief of Engineers, French movable dams on the Kanawha River, the Kanawha River in general, Gallipolis Locks and Dam, the Winfield hydroelectric power plant, etc. Highlights include NRHP nomination form for Gallipolis Locks and Dam. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 8: two facsimile drawings (undated), one Racine Locks and Dam pamphlet (undated), eleven sheets of the Virginia Magazine (1881), and one engineering drawing (1938).

Dates

  • Creation: 1876-1881, 1898, 1932-1940, 1985-ca. 2000 (Includes facsimiles)

Repository Details

Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository

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