Tygart Dam Manuscript Drafts

Containers:

Box 242

Scope and content:

Kemp wrote the book, Building Tygart Dam: A New Deal Public Works Project for the Pittsburgh District of the USACE, although the USACE did not publish the book. The box contains Kemp's preparations for the manuscript, including correspondence and drafts of the book. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: photographic prints, engineering drawings, and clippings. Subjects include the Tygart River Valley, Tygart Dam and Reservoir, Tygart Lake, fish at Tygart Lake, the Monongahela River, the New Deal-era Public Works Administration, the Pittsburgh Flood Commission, and the Pittsburgh District of the USACE, dams as navigational tools, dams as flood control measures, dams as environmental restoration areas and dams as recreational areas. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 12, Folder 8: one map (1992) and two clippings (2008).

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