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Item Title
Highline Extension Canal, Denver, Denver County, CO
Location
Denver vicinity, CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CO-67
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N313).
Building/structure dates:
1913 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1924 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1932 subsequent work
Linear resource covering a wide area. See documentation for exact location of extant features.
Significance: The canal system helped promote the agricultural settlement of the west-central Adams County. The privately financed irrigation company planned for irrigation water to be delivered to 60,000 acres of land in what was then Adams County for use by farmers. The canal system failed to deliver the water and became instead an example of irrigation-based land speculation.
Subjects
Irrigation Canals
Related Names
Highline Canal
Richardson, Cyrus
Highline Reservoir
Clark, Horace G.
Doherty, Henry
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. OVERALL VIEW OF LATERAL A WITH HEADGATE, HIGHLINE EXTENSION CANAL, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
2. OVERALL VIEW OF TERMINAL DAM, HIGHLINE EXTENSION CANAL, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
3. OVERALL VIEW OF LATERAL E, HIGHLINE EXTENSION CANAL, LOOKING NORTHEAST
4. VIEW OF HEADGATE, LATERAL A, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
5. VIEW OF HEADGATE, LATERAL A, LOOKING WEST
6. VIEW OF HEADGATE, LATERAL A, LOOKING EAST
7. VIEW OF LATERAL A, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
8. VIEW OF LATERAL A, LOOKING NORTHWEST
9. VIEW OF TERMINAL DAM, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
10. VIEW OF TERMINAL DAM, LOOKING WEST
11. VIEW OF TERMINAL DAM, LOOKING EAST
12. VIEW OF TERMINAL DAM, LOOKING NORTHEAST
13. DETAIL VIEW OF FLOW CONTROL, TERMINAL RESERVOIR
14. VIEW OF LATERAL E WITH HEADGATE, LOOKING WEST
15. VIEW OF LATERAL E WITH HEADGATE, LOOKING NORTHEAST
16. VIEW OF LATERAL E WITH HEADGATE, LOOKING SOUTHEAST
17. VIEW OF LATERAL E WITH HEADGATES, LOOKING SOUTH
18. VIEW OF LATERAL G, LOOKING WEST FROM HUDSON ROAD
19. VIEW OF LATERAL G, LOOKING EAST TOWARD HUDSON ROAD
20. VIEW OF LATERAL G, LOOKING SOUTH FROM BEND AT NORTH END
21. VIEW OF LATERAL G, LOOKING NORTH FROM BEND AT MIDDLE OF LATERAL
22. VIEW OF LATERAL G, LOOKING SOUTH FROM BEND AT MIDDLE OF LATERAL, CURVING TO LEFT IN THE BACKGROUND TOWARD HUDSON ROAD
23. VIEW OF LATERAL G, SHOWING DOUBLE GATE AND SINGLE GATES NEAR TERMINAL RESERVOIR, LOOKING WEST
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