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Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR
Summary
Significance: Construction and completion of the canal in 1904 introduced irrigation to Central Oregon and contributed to the settlement, growth and creation of Bend. Although several other private irrigation companies had incorporated and were planning irrigation canals, Drake's Pilot Butte Development Company, and its successor, the Deschutes Irrigation and Power Company, were the first to complete a major irrigation canal in Central Oregon...
Survey number: HAER OR-62
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 100001303
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Oregon Department of Transportation, sponsor
Schwab, Leslie, photographer
Location
Bend, 44.20901, -121.23392
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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
