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Item Title
Klamath Basin Project, "A" Canal Headworks House, 500 Nevada Street, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, OR
Location500 Nevada Street,
Klamath Falls, OR
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER OR-90-A
Significance: This house is among the first constructed by the Federal government in developing in the Klamath Basin Project. The A Canal and its headworks are the first Federal diversion from Upper Klamath Lake. The A Canal is pivotal to the development of the irrigation system and the agricultural economic base operating within the Klamath Basin. The A Canal Headworks House served as the residence for workers who controlled releases into the A Canal.
Subjects
CanalsHouses
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Overview of the A Canal Headworks House complex, showing house, carriage house and barn (left to right). Portions of the A Canal Headworks are visible in the background left of the house. Facing southwest.
2. Overview of A Canal Headworks House complex, showing a portion of the headworks, the house and carriage house. Facing northwest.
3. Front of the A Canal Headworks House, facing west.
4. Side of the A Canal Headworks House, facing north.
5. Side of the A Canal Headworks House, facing south.
6. Rear of the A Canal Headworks House, facing east.
7. Side view of the carriage house, facing east.
8. Oblique view of the barn, facing northwest.
9. Historic photo. Labeled as follows, '#194 - Upstream face of intake gates of Main Klamath Canal. Also gate house at lower end of Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. October 22nd, 1907.'
10. Historic photo. Labeled as follows, '#195 - Gates and gate house at intake of Main Canal. October 22nd, 1907.
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