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Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, North Embankment, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI
Summary
Significance: It is part of a semi-hydraulic fill dam of the Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, which impounds water for use in generating electric power. The dam was designed by William G. Fargo of Jackson, Michigan, a civil engineer who helped pioneer the hydraulic-fill construction method in the Midwest. When the plant went on line in 1912, it set a new record for transmission voltage.
Survey number: HAER MI-98-A
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Oscoda, 44.42029, -83.33080
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
