File — Box: 49
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 correspondence, facsimile articles, book chapters, and meeting minutes. Subjects include French canals and technology, Indian (Native American) weirs, William Craighill, Josiah White and his bear trap locks, movable dams, The Great Kanawha Navigation etc. Highlights include French postcards. The following items have been moved to Box 342: three facsimile engineering drawings (1879-1886, 1955), and one facsimile map (1896-1897).
Dates
- Creation: 1831-1889; 1909-1998 (includes facsimiles)
Repository Details
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository
Contact:
1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown WV 26506-6069 US
304-293-3536
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1549 University Ave.
P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown WV 26506-6069 US
304-293-3536
wvrhcref@westvirginia.libanswers.com