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Lowe, Jet
Title
English: DETAIL VIEW OF THE OLD ARMORY WALL LOCATED ALONG THE SHORE OF THE POTOMAC SLIGHTLY SOUTHEAST FROM THE SPILLWAYS OF THE POWER PLANT. - Potomac Power Plant, On West Virginia Shore of Potomac River, about 1 mile upriver from confluence with Shenandoah River, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
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Savery, Thomas; Potomac Pulp Mill; Harpers Ferry Paper Company; Harpers Ferry Electric Light and Power Company; Potomac Light and Power; Allegheny Power; Behrens, Tom, transmitter; Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, sponsor; Marston, Christopher, project manager; Behrens, Thomas, project manager; Clausen, Lee, delineator; Stowell, Walton, delineator; Brezovecki-Bidin, Sandra, delineator; Herrin, Dean, historian; Lowe, Jet, photographer; Stewart, Robert C, historian; Stewart, Robert C, photographer; Ravenhorst, J, delineator
Depicted place West Virginia; Jefferson County; Harpers Ferry
Date 1999
date QS:P571,+1999-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
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,30-21
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Potomac Power Plant was an innovative small hydroelectric facility that operated from 1899 to 1991, originally as part of a wood pulp mill (built 1888), and solely as a power house after a fire in 1925. Significant extant equipment/machinery in the plant includes a c.1905 Dayton Globe water turbine, and a 1925 Woodward water turbine governor. The building is also symbolic of industry in Harpers Ferry, as it occupies the site (and possibly the partial foundations) of Harpers Ferry National Armory buildings dating to 1834 and 1853, and contains reused structural materials from various Armory buildings as well as from an 1848 Harpers Ferry cotton mill (later a flour mill).
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N748
  • Survey number: HAER WV-61
  • Building/structure dates: 1889 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wv0435.photos.192605p
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