Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, 1978-1994 (includes facsimiles)

Kemp served as a senior technical advisor for the USACE’s official history of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (“Tenn-Tom”), which stretches across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. He conducted oral histories with engineering staff members of the USACE’ Mobile and Nashville Districts, wrote sections of the report, and advised Principal Investigator Jeffrey Stine on technical terms for the report. Kemp later published an essay on the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, one of the last big public waterway initiatives of the twentieth century. The box includes report drafts, correspondence, catalog records, handwritten notes, deeds of gifts for oral histories, research proposals, outlines of the report, and brochures. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps and book excerpts. Subjects include the ACE Mobile District, the ACE Nashville District, the decision to build the Tenn-Tom, and Bay Springs Lock and Dam. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 10: one map (1983), fourteen sheets of facsimile book excerpts (1986), one chart (1986), and two facsimile engineering drawings (undated). Transcripts of several oral histories appear in Box 340.