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DOWNSTREAM FACE OF DAM AND TAILRACE, LOOKING SOUTHWEST - Warrior Ridge Dam, Spanning Frankstown Branch of Juniata River, Petersburg, Huntingdon County, PA
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Lowe, Jet

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Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec)
Title
DOWNSTREAM FACE OF DAM AND TAILRACE, LOOKING SOUTHWEST - Warrior Ridge Dam, Spanning Frankstown Branch of Juniata River, Petersburg, Huntingdon County, PA
Description
Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Company; Juniata Hydroelectric Company; Wood, A G; General Electric Company; Pennsylvania Hydro Electric Company; Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec); American Hydro Power Company; Madrid, transmitter
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Huntingdon County; Petersburg
Date 1990
date QS:P571,+1990-00-00T00:00:00Z/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
Accession number
HAER PA,31-PETBU.V,1-1
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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 Ambursen Hydraulic Construction Company, a major dam builder in the United States in the early twentieth century, designed and built the dam. As one of the earliest examples of a covered version of a buttressed hollow-core dam, patented by Ambursen in 1904, the facility at Warrior Ridge was the focus of widespread attention in the engineering press.
  • Survey number: HAER PA-377
  • Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3237.photos.358673p
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Object location40° 34′ 21″ N, 78° 02′ 49.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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