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Taylorsville Dam Construction Camp Housing Photographs

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Title	Taylorsville Dam Construction Camp Housing Photographs
Subject	Architecture Geography and Natural Resources Climate and Weather Miami Conservancy District (Ohio) Construction Dams Camps Flood control Employees Houses
Place	Vandalia (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	These four 6.5" x 10.5" (16.51 x 26.67 cm) photographs show homes and cottages in the Taylorsville Dam construction camp. The photographs show A. F. McCarthy's Number 4 cottage, Number 1 cottage, a double house, and Mr. Floyd's Number 5 special cottage. The Taylorsville Dam is an earthen embankment located across the Great Miami River in northeastern Montgomery County near the city of Vandalia. The design of the Miami Conservancy District (MCD) construction camps reflected the ideas of the Progressive Era reformers who headed the program. Unlike the shantytowns of other construction projects, MCD workers had the opportunity to live in self-governing communities with an elected body and professional administrator (council-manager form of government). Communities offered decent housing with electricity and running water, playgrounds, a community hall with recreation and activities, dining facilities, schools for the children, and evening courses in English for immigrants. Each camp was also equipped with a first aid building, bakery, grocery store, meathouse, and mess hall.
Creator	Miami Conservancy District
Date of Original	May 23, 1919; June 01, 1919; June 01, 1919; June 15, 1919
Source	Audiovisual material 41313 41354 41257 41413
Submitting Institution	Miami Conservancy District
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1725_2803520_002
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1725_2803520_002.tif
Image Height	1705
Image Width	3108
File Size	857.164 KB

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