Natural Resources Conservation Service Hughes River Project, 1992-2000 and undated (includes facsimiles)

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 materials about the historic structures, including reports, report drafts, engineering drawings, handwritten notes, photographic prints, photographic negatives, photographic contact sheets, and floppy disks. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, reports, photographic prints, articles, instruction manuals, budget lists and contracts. Subjects include structures in Harrisville, West Virginia, including Woods Homestead, the Moore Homestead, the Tate Homestead and Oil Rigger, the Imperial Carbon Black Plant and the Back Run Plant. Subjects also include railways in Ritchie County, state highway bridges, coal and natural gas, and the North Fork of the Hughes River.