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Big Creek - Club House & Dormitory at Powerhouse #1, Cascada (front view).
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Employee album of Big Creek
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Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including Powerhouse 3 control room, Cascada Drug Store, Accounting Office, Mess Hall, Powerhouse3 generator floor, Camps 63 and 65, School House, Clubhouse/dormitory, Powerhouse 1 in snow, Dam 6, Powerhouse 3, Huntington Lake Lodge, Hospital, sled dog team, tunnel work, and Florence Lake.
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Big Creek Powerhouse #1 arose at the junction of Pitman Creek and Big Creek
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Big Creek Powerhouse #1 arose at the junction of Pitman Creek and Big Creek, on exactly the site proposed by John Eastwood a decade earlier. By April 1913 work was well under way. This view looks west down Big Creek Canyon, with the town of Cascada (Big Creek) just out of the picture at the right.
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Big Creek #1
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Big Creek #1 - Rear view of Powerhouse #1 [in snow]
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Big Creek #1
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Big Creek #1 - Rear view of Powerhouse #1, from penstocks [in snow]
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel washer, reservoir from Dam 1 [Huntington Lake], east portal Tunnel No. 3, logging; Big Creek Dam 2 and Dam site 3; Big Creek Camp 1, gravel pit, gravel washer; Big Creek crossing at foot of incline [Powerhouse No. 1 site]; Train No. 103 at Cascada; Train leaving for El Prado; Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek; Cascada yards; Hoist No. 2; Warehouse, planning mill, and lumber yards. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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