The Great Kanawha Navigation: L and M, 1913-1937 (Includes facsimiles)

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 bid documents, contracts, funds, appropriations, correspondence, articles, clippings, maps, reports, contracts, and proposals. Subjects include flood control work, roller gate dams, and steel. Highlights include correspondence about work accidents, violating the 8-hour law, protest at the General Contracting Corporation. Correspondents primarily Brig. General Pillsbury, Major Fred Herman, Ernest M. Merrill and Major General Lytle Brown.