The Great Kanawha Navigation: O, 1865-1877; 1904-1910; 1985-1995 and undated (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 articles, correspondence, scholarly papers, manuals, reports, fact sheets and books. Subjects include the history of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, Inland Waterways of France, irrigation, "Indian" (Native American) engineering, movable dams, the history of technology and culture, Winfield locks and dams, St. Andrews Rapid Dams, Mississippi River reservoirs, and The Great Kanawha Navigation. Highlights include a HAER report on the Mississippi River Headwaters Reservoirs. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 10: one map of the Inland Waterways of France (1961), one engineering drawing of Monongahela River Dam (undated), six facsimile Irrigation Conference papers, Volume III (1904).