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Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Substation, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Substation, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: The outdoor Substation houses transformers which step up the electrical current produced at Cooke to 46,000 volts, in preparation for transmission to the nearby Iosco-Loud lines. It apparently rep... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, North Embankment, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, North Embankment, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable...

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, ... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Shed, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Shed, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Osco...

Significance: It exemplifies the type of temporary building seen throughout the construction camp that was maintained during the erection of the Cooke Hydroelectric Plant in northeastern Michigan. When Cooke we... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Io...

Significance: It was the beginning of an interconnected power system throughout that state's Lower Peninsula. When Cooke went on line in 1912, the plant produced electrical energy that was used 125 miles to the... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Gate Posts, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Gate Posts, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: The Gates Posts mark the entrance to the Cooke Hydropower Plant on Cooke Dam Road. Survey number: HAER MI-98-H

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, South Embankment, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, South Embankment, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable...

Significance: It is part of a semi-hydraulic fill dam at the Cooke Hydroelectric Plant that impounds water for use in generating electric power. The dam was designed by William G. Fargo of Jackson, Michigan, a ... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Io...

Significance: It was the beginning of an interconnected power system throughout that state's Lower Peninsula. When Cooke went on line in 1912, the plant produced electrical energy that was used 125 miles to the... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Io...

Significance: It was the beginning of an interconnected power system throughout that state's Lower Peninsula. When Cooke went on line in 1912, the plant produced electrical energy that was used 125 miles to the... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, Powerhouse, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River...

Significance: It was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan, civil engineer who specialized in small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest. The Powerhouse shelters all the electrical gene... More

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, North Embankment, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable River, Oscoda, Iosco County, MI

Cooke Hydroelectric Plant, North Embankment, Cook Dam Road at Au Sable...

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, ... More