Muskingum, 1887-2001 (Includes facsimiles)

Kemp wrote the book, Taming the Muskingum about navigation on the Muskingum River in Ohio. This box contains his research materials, including a book, photo negatives and prints, an annual report, pamphlets, a fact sheet, newsletters, a magazine, and notes. Also includes facsimile clippings, diagrams, contracts, reports, purchases, expenditures, and correspondence. Subjects include the history of the Muskingum Watershed, the operations of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD), locks and dams, engineering on the Muskingum River, Ohio geology, the Miami Conservancy District, Muskingum soil mechanics, etc. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 3, Folder 7: nine pamphlets on Piedmont, Leesville, Clendening, Atwood, Charles Mill, Seneca, and Pleasant Hill lakes (1999-2001), Tappan Moravian Trail pamphlet (undated); one property survey conveyed to Francis and Morris Buxton (1978), one facsimile report: Ohio Valley Flood Control Plan (1941).