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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Construction Towns, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA
• Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
• Related Names:
     U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
     Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Company
     National Construction Company
     MacDonald and Gunmere
     MacDonald Building Company
     Howard S. Wright Company
     Civilian Conservation Corps
     Consolidated Builders, Inc.
     Henry J. Kaiser Company
     Federal Public Housing Authority
     U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Regional Office , sponsor
     Roise, Charlene , project manager
     Gales, Elizabeth , researcher
     Petersen, Penny , researcher
     Fraser, Clayton B , photographer
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
• Medium: Photo(s): 49
  Data Page(s): 32
  Photo Caption Page(s): 4
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: 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)
  
• Call Number: HAER WA-139-J
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • This survey includes information about construction towns in Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan Counties.
  • Significance: When the location for the Grand Coulee Project was selected in the early 1930s, the area was inhabited by Native Americans tribes and a handful of Anglo-Americans. As thousands of workers poured into the region, an array of communities popped up to serve them. The Bureau of Reclamation established Government Camp on the west bank of the river, just below the dam, to house the engineers, inspectors, and other bureau employees assigned to the project. On the opposite bank was Mason City, created by the first major contractor for the project. Within a few decades, these communities would merge to form Coulee Dam. While Government Camp and Mason City were laid out, built, and managed by their respective sponsors, such oversight was not evident in communities serving the common laborer, which were the twentieth-century equivalent of the Wild West towns spawned decades earlier. By 1935, an estimated ten to twelve thousand people inhabited Basin City, Coulee Center, Coulee Dam City, Coulee Heights, Electric City, Elmerton, Elmore Heights, Grand Coulee, Osborne, Rimrock, and other shanty towns.
  • Survey number: HAER WA-139-J
  • Building/structure dates: 1932-1938 Initial Construction
• Subjects:
  • power industry
  • hydroelectric power plants
  • company towns
  • cities & towns
• Place:
  • Washington -- Grant County -- Grand Coulee
• Latitude/Longitude: 47.939565, -119.003947
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: 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
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HAER WA-139-J
• Medium: Photo(s): 49
  Data Page(s): 32
  Photo Caption Page(s): 4

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• Call Number: HAER WA-139-J
• Medium: Photo(s): 49
  Data Page(s): 32
  Photo Caption Page(s): 4

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