Natural Resources Conservation Service Hughes River Project, 1988-1999 and undated

Kemp’s consulting business, Past and Present, was contracted by the NRCS (formerly the SCS) to prepare HABS/HAER-like records of historic structures that would potentially be impacted by the construction of a multipurpose dam on the North Fork Hughes River in Ritchie County, West Virginia. The box includes correspondence, contracts, report drafts, handwritten and typed research notes, engineering drawings and maps. Subjects include the North Fork Hughes River Dam; Ritchie County, West Virginia; historic mills and homesteads; preserving historic structures, especially those in ruin; preparing HABS/HAER nominations. Highlights include three volumes of the report, “Phase II Cultural Resources Investigation on the North Fork Hughes River, Ritchie County, West Virginia.” The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 1: nine maps (undated).