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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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Beaver Hole Dam.
• Bolivia
• Cheat Haven and Baltimore Railroad
• Cheat Lake (W. Va.)
• Cheat River Power Project
• Cheat area property owners.
• Dams
• Downs, William S.
• Floods
• Geology
• Oil and Gas Industry and Fields.
• Property Owners, Cheat Area.
• Railroads
• Road Construction.
• Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes.
• Water-power
• West Virginia University -- Faculty
• West Virginia University -- Students
• West Virginia University. College of Engineering
• West Virginia. State Road Commission