The Great Kanawha Navigation: I and J, 1820/1988
- Containers:
- Box 43
- Scope and content:
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The USACE appointed Kemp to document locks and dams along the Kanawha River and nominate them for the NRHP. Kemp's research culminated in the book, The Great Kanawha Navigation. This box contains materials from his research, including facsimile correspondence, articles, illustrations, drawings, maps, clippings, statistical and expense reports, magazines, photos, negatives, and newsletters. Subjects include the Ohio, James, and Kanawha Rivers; rolling gates; general West Virginia history; the unionization of the Kanawha field; and Kanawha River traffic. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 9: three facsimile engineering drawings Gallipolis Locks and Dam and Kanawha River Lock (1932 and undated), six facsimile charts (1931-1935), fourteen Army Corps of Engineers Pamphlets on regional water bodies (1994-1998), one facsimile newspaper: Charleston Gazette - New Dams (1934), and ten pages of facsimile Hardesty's encyclopedia entries (1889).
Access and use
- Location of collection:
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West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia UniversityP.O. Box 60691549 University AvenueMorgantown, WV 26506
- Contact for questions and access:
- POC: Lori HostuttlerEmail: lori.hostuttler@mail.wvu.eduPhone: (304) 293-3536Web: wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu
- Parent restrictions:
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