1.7 Linear Feet, 1 ft. 8 in. (4 document cases, 5 in. each)
Creator
Downs, William S.
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William S. Downs, Engineering Professor, Papers, A&M 2946, West Virginia
and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Downs was an engineering professor at West Virginia University and an engineer with the West Virginia State Road Commission.
Includes records and photos of road-building projects in Bolivia and West Virginia, photograph albums of West Virginia hydro-electric
plant construction, lists of lot owners for the area flooded by Cheat Lake, and a memoir of Downs' student years at West Virginia
University, ca. 1905.
Volume 1. Diary (Subjects include surveying the Cheat Lake area, drilling for oil, bridge building, and the Beaver Hole Dam)
1912 December-1914 October
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Volume 2. Mt. Park Land Company: Reports of William S. Downs at Cheat Haven
1911 September-1913 July
Mixed Materials Box: 1
Volume 3. Mountain Park Land Company -- Contracts & Special Reports: Cheat Haven and B.R.R. [Bruceton Railroad?]; Cheat River
Hydro-Electric Company; Indexed (Facsimile of index)
1912 March-1913 January
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Volume 4. Clippings on the Cheat River power project
1912–1913
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Volume 5. Clippings on the Cheat River power project
1913–1914
Mixed Materials Box: 2
Volume 6. Crushing tests of sandstone from state line dam site