East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614
E-mail: archives@etsu.edu
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INTRODUCTION
Title: NORRIS DAM CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS
Collection Number:Accession No. 207
Physical Description: 9 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" black and white
photographs
Creator: Eloise Haney
Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance: The nine photographs of early construction on Norris Dam were donated to the Archives of Appalachia in November 1987 by Eloise Haney of Kingsport University Center, a division of East Tennessee State University.
Access: The photographs are open for research.
Processing Information: Marie Tedesco and Georgia Greer completed processing and the photgraphs were opened in October 1989.
HISTORICAL NOTE
In July 1933 the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority named Cove Creek Dam "Norris Dam" in honor of Senator George Norris from Nebraska. Even before the construction of the dam began, a town of Norris was being planned and built. On October 1, 1933 work at the dam site began on the east bank of the Clinch River. Norris Dam was virtually finished after almost three years of construction. In May of 1936, the gates of the dam were closed, and impoundment of the Clinch River began. By the end of July, the first generator had begun spinning, thus bringing near to completion the first of twenty dams that TVA was to build in the next twenty years.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The nine photographs depict the early construction of Norris Dam, the first of TVA's twenty dams built in the Tennessee River basin.
Important subjects covered in the collection include:
Dams--Design and construction
Norris Dam (Tenn.)
Tennessee Valley Authority
MTC 12/00