Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, 1960-2006 and undated (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 Army Corps of Engineers’ 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. This box contains materials from his research, including notes, book excerpts, photographic prints, maps, compact discs of photographs, reports, manuals, and newsletters. The box also includes facsimile reports and a facsimile award nomination. Subjects include the engineering techniques of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Bay Springs Lock and Dam, locks and dams in general, the Divide Cut of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, shallow-draft waterways, and the process of reinforcing waterways. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 1: nine brochures (1960-1980), and one map (undated).