Category: Electric industry

Worst industrial tragedy in WV history

By February 24, 1933, 130 of the 3,000 men working on the Hawks Nest Tunnel at Alloy had already died from silicosis.

Anderson, SC was the first city in the United States to have a continuous supply of electric power thanks to native son William C. Whitner.

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.

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