Around Lake Norman
The year 1957 brought change to Mooresville and southern Iredell County, and that change arrived in trucks. Big white ones flashed the logo of Burlington Industries, the new owners of the Mooresville Cotton Mills. Bright yellow ones from the Duke Power Company brought earth-moving machines to clear the Catawba River bottomland. That project, envisioned by James Buchanan Duke, Dr. Gill Wylie, and William States Lee Jr., had the end goal of harnessing the energy of the Catawba River to provide electricity for the textile industry in the Carolinas. Duke Power,s plan for Cowans Ford Lake was the last piece of the network of hydroelectric stations…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4396-1968-1
- EAN: 9781439619681
- Produktnummer: 28054744
- Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 48'286 KB
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