The Great Kanawha Navigation: B/C, 1932-1940

Containers:

Box 37

Scope and content:

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 a manuscript by J. L. Perry, History of the Bluestone Dam and other facsimile correspondence with Franklin Roosevelt, the Secretary of War, Major Fred Herman, the Chief of Engineers, J. Thomas Ward, et al. Includes additional facsimile reference material regarding to the Bluestone Reservoir, public hearings, a bid invitation, the federal work relief program, newspaper articles from the Huntington-Herald, and an offer to sell land to the United States. Includes additional facsimile reports on civil engineering, public works, dams, wickets, locks, and wicket repair. These references were used in the writing of The Great Kanawha Navigation. The following items have been moved to Box 342: one facsimile of the Charleston Gazette (1927), six sheets facsimile engineering drawings (undated), one facsimile chart (undated), and eight sheets of facsimile photographs (undated).

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