Lock and Dam No. 8 Under Construction on the Kanawha River, W.Va.
Date:
1892/07/01
Description:
'U.S. Improvement, Great Kanawha River, West Virginia. Lock and Dam No.8 - Inside of first section of cofferdam for navigation pass. Taken from the lock wall. Taken July 1, 1892. The upper guard sill and downstream wall are finished, and the concreting is done. The main longitudinal timbers are all placed. The wicket sill as far as shown lacks the cap piece, sill irons and plate, of being finished. The setting of coping, paving, work on wicket sill, and the placing of fixed irons - wicket and trestle boxes, hurters and slides, etc., in progress. (There was a little water on top of the paving between the guard and wicket sills when the picture was taken.)'
