Soil Conservation Service (Natural Resources Conservation Service) West Virginia Structures Project, 1989-1998 (includes facsimiles)

Kemp’s consulting firm, Past and Present, was contracted by the SCS (now the NRCS) to carry out “data recovery…associated with historic buildings, bridges, and other structures impacted by water resource projects in West Virginia.” The box contains Kemp’s studies of a few structures and photographs prepared for HABS/HAER nominations. It includes contracts, correspondence, maps, photograph indexes and keys, photographic prints, and photographic negatives. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings, maps, correspondence, and budget lists. Subjects include the George Washington Smith House and Farm in Ripley, West Virginia; historic houses in Harrisville, West Virginia; and the HABS/HAER nomination process. The following oversized items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 11: 13 engineering drawings (undated).