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Book Review: ‘Story of the Summersville Dam’

Stories from descendants of workers on the dam, government officials involved, and families who’d been displaced by the dam’s construction.

Hundreds of workers on WV’s Hawk’s Nest Tunnel and Dam died of silicosis, in what is considered one of America’s worst industrial disasters.

When the Tallulah Falls hydroelectric plant began generating electricity in 1913, it was among the first such plants in the United Sates.

Norris damsite on Tennessee’s Clinch River, where 2,000 men are at work on preliminary construction. November, 1933.

200 ft. below Lake Keowee sits Ft Prince George, an early British military outpost, & the Cherokee village Keowee–“land of mulberry groves.”

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