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CANAL HEADGATES, EAST ELEVATION - Virginius Island Waterpowered Mill Complex, North bank of Shenandoah River 0.5 mile from confluence with Potomac River, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
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CANAL HEADGATES, EAST ELEVATION - Virginius Island Waterpowered Mill Complex, North bank of Shenandoah River 0.5 mile from confluence with Potomac River, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
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O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter; O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter; Winant, E, delineator; Spyrakos, C, delineator; Ross, P, delineator; Bonenberger, D, delineator; Jordan, B, delineator; Birdsong, S, delineator; Kierstead, M, delineator; Coffey, B, delineator
Depicted place West Virginia; Jefferson County; Harpers Ferry
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER WVA,19-HARF,34-3
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  • Significance: Virginius Island is significant because it is representative of nineteenth-century water-powered industry, the type which initially kindled America's Industrial Revolution. The Island's first industry, a saw mill, was established in 1824 by Lewis Wernwag. For the next one hundred years, despite devastating flooding and the Civil War, Virginius Island remained a center of industry. Later Island industries included tanneries, flour mills, cotton mills, machine shop, iron foundry, and a pulp mill, the last mill to operate on the Island. Today only ruins of these industries remain: the canal headgates, the intake tunnels, the large and small cotton mills, the siltation basins, and vestiges of the power canal.
  • Survey number: HAER WV-83
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wv0536.photos.192620p
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