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The IHTIA surveyed the preservation needs of the historic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike on behalf of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike Alliance. This box includes Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike research materials, including index cards with source listings, catalog records, correspondence, handwritten notes, field survey notes, brochures, contact lists, and itineraries. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps, book excerpts, magazine clippings, reports and scholarly journal articles. Subjects include Virginia turnpikes; Virginia roads construction; West Virginia road construction; Randolph County, West Virginia road construction; road restoration, and the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 5: ten maps (1823-1858, 1928, and undated), nine book excerpts (1976), and two engineering drawings (undated).

Kemp and the IHTIA researched historic bridges and preserved the High Gate Carriage House property in Fairmont, West Virginia and a B&O Railroad bridge in Littleton, West Virginia. He also collaborated with Barb Howe on the preservation of Bulltown Historic Area in Braxton County, West Virginia as part of a contract for the USACE. The box includes photographic prints, photographic negatives, articles, lists, reports, and handwritten notes. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: engineering drawings and reports. Subjects include historic bridges, industries and structures in West Virginia. Highlights include a compilation of Kemp's articles on bridges entitled "Historic Bridge Articles Volume 1."

Kemp collected images of suspension bridges. This box includes originals and facsimiles of the following: drawings, photographs, engineering drawings, and correspondence. Subjects include bridges, suspension bridges, Charles Ellet Jr., John Roebling, James Finley, iron bridges, European suspension bridges, and suspension bridges in the United States (especially the Niagara Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, and bridges in Washington, DC and Pennsylvania).

The box contains Kemp's research on suspension bridges. It includes original photographs, handwritten notes, and drawings. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, articles, and engineering drawings. Subjects include suspension bridges in the United States (especially Pennsylvania), Europe (especially Germany), restoring bridges, and James Dredge. The folders, "Dredge, J-1843 His patent iron bridges, "Dredge in Ulster: Suspension Bridges [N. Irelan]," and "Carrick-A-Rede Bridge" were empty and removed. The following oversize items were moved to Box 342: three engineering drawings (undated).

Kemp served as a senior technical advisor for the USACE's official history of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway ("Tenn-Tom"), which stretches across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. He conducted oral histories with engineering staff members of the Army Corps of Engineers' Mobile and Nashville Districts, wrote sections of the report, and advised Principal Investigator Jeffrey Stine on technical terms for the report. Kemp later published an essay on the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, one of the last big public waterway initiatives of the twentieth century. This box contains materials from his research, including notes, book excerpts, photographic prints, maps, compact discs of photographs, reports, manuals, and newsletters. The box also includes facsimile reports and a facsimile award nomination. Subjects include the engineering techniques of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Bay Springs Lock and Dam, locks and dams in general, the Divide Cut of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, shallow-draft waterways, and the process of reinforcing waterways. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 15, Folder 1: nine brochures (1960-1980), and one map (undated).

Kemp served as a senior technical advisor for the USACE's official history of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway ("Tenn-Tom"), which stretches across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. He conducted oral histories with engineering staff members of the USACE' Mobile and Nashville Districts, wrote sections of the report, and advised Principal Investigator Jeffrey Stine on technical terms for the report. Kemp later published an essay on the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, one of the last big public waterway initiatives of the twentieth century. The box includes report drafts, correspondence, catalog records, handwritten notes, deeds of gifts for oral histories, research proposals, outlines of the report, and brochures. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps and book excerpts. Subjects include the ACE Mobile District, the ACE Nashville District, the decision to build the Tenn-Tom, and Bay Springs Lock and Dam. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 10: one map (1983), fourteen sheets of facsimile book excerpts (1986), one chart (1986), and two facsimile engineering drawings (undated). Transcripts of several oral histories appear in Box 340.

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 correspondence between Kemp, Robert Maslowski of the Huntington District Corps of Engineers and publishers about movable dams, The Great Kanawha Navigation, and Ohio River Locks and Dams. Also includes a sponsored program application to WVU, a cultural resource analysis, an NRHP evaluation of the Kanawha River navigation system, maps, schematics, and pamphlets. Includes facsimile reference material for Kemp's book, The Great Kanawha Navigation including correspondence with Major Layman, the Chief of Engineers, E.D. Ardesty, et. Al. Also includes the preliminary examination, investigation, survey, and economic study of the Kanawha by the War Department: Chief of Engineers; clippings from the Charleston Daily Mail; right of way deed; and bound copies of the United States Congressional Series Set.

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 drawings, illustrations, reports, license applications, correspondence, photos, negatives, a manuscript, a floppy disk, clippings, and captions list and revision notes for the text The Great Kanawha Navigation. Subjects include William P. Craighill, Chief of Engineers, French movable dams on the Kanawha River, the Kanawha River in general, Gallipolis Locks and Dam, the Winfield hydroelectric power plant, etc. Highlights include NRHP nomination form for Gallipolis Locks and Dam. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 8: two facsimile drawings (undated), one Racine Locks and Dam pamphlet (undated), eleven sheets of the Virginia Magazine (1881), and one engineering drawing (1938).

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 articles, correspondence, scholarly papers, manuals, reports, fact sheets and books. Subjects include the history of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, Inland Waterways of France, irrigation, "Indian" (Native American) engineering, movable dams, the history of technology and culture, Winfield locks and dams, St. Andrews Rapid Dams, Mississippi River reservoirs, and The Great Kanawha Navigation. Highlights include a HAER report on the Mississippi River Headwaters Reservoirs. The following items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 1, Folder 10: one map of the Inland Waterways of France (1961), one engineering drawing of Monongahela River Dam (undated), six facsimile Irrigation Conference papers, Volume III (1904).

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 correspondence, facsimile articles, book chapters, and meeting minutes. Subjects include French canals and technology, Indian (Native American) weirs, William Craighill, Josiah White and his bear trap locks, movable dams, The Great Kanawha Navigation etc. Highlights include French postcards. The following items have been moved to Box 342: three facsimile engineering drawings (1879-1886, 1955), and one facsimile map (1896-1897).