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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Union Carbide Corporation, Hawk's Nest Project Papers, A&M 1916, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, memoranda, drafts, briefs, exhibits, reports, and newspaper clippings on the Federal Power Commission's licensing of Union Carbide Corporation's Hawk's Nest and Glenn Ferris power dam projects. Subjects include FPC hearings, history of navigability of the Kanawha River, efforts to dam the Kanawha River, the navigability of the New River, and the New-Kanawha Power Company. Correspondents include H.G. Davis, Russell A. Alger, Homer Adams Holt, Robert C. Byrd, and Jennings Randolph.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Alger, Russell A.
• Byrd, Robert C.
• Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916
• Glenn Ferris (W. Va.)
• Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975
• Kanawha River (W. Va.)
• New River (N.C.-W. Va.)
• New-Kanawha Power Company
• Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998
• Rivers and river valleys.
• Union Carbide Corporation - Hawk's Nest Project.
• United States. Federal Power Commission