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Middle Creek Hydroelectric Dam, On Middle Creek, West of U.S. Route 15, 3 miles South of Selinsgrove, Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA
Summary
Significance: The Middle Creek Hydroelectric Dam is a significant example of a timber crib dam and small electric generating station, that is typical of early rural electrification in America. Locally it was a major component of a conscious plan to modernize and promote a rather depressed county in Pennsylvania. After a period of disuse, it was revived and remained an active hydroelectric site until 1991.
Survey number: HAER PA-220
Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1936 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1983 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1983 Subsequent Work
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Darlington, F W
Shatzer, E F
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company
American Hydro Power Company
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Middlecreek Electric Company
Wagenseller, George W
E. Morgan Smith Company
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Northumberland County Gas & Electric Company
Musser, Mark
Martin Jay Rosenblum & Associates, contractor
Pennsylvania Fish Commission, sponsor
Reinberger, Mark, historian
Eisenman, George A, photographer
Location
Selinsgrove (Pa.), 40.79897, -76.86219
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
