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Title: Battle Creek Hydroelectric System, Battle Creek & Tributaries, Red Bluff, Tehama County, CA
Other Title: Coleman Power House
Inskip Power House
South Power House
Volta Power House
Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Related Names:
Tedford, H A
Pacific Power Company
Northern California Power Company
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
Measured Drawing(s): 20
Data Page(s): 182
Photo Caption Page(s): 14
Notes:
Significance: The Battle Creek hydroelectric system was a typical turn-of-the-century California hydroelectric system, characterized by high head plants, the use of the impulse wheel as a prime mover, and long water gathering networks. / The Battle Creek hydroelectric system consists of four power houses - Volta, South, Inskip and Coleman - located on Battle Creek in Shasta and Tehama Counties, California. This system, a rather typical turn-of-the-century California hydroelectric development, was erected between 1901 and 1911 by the Northern California Power Company and its predecessor, the Keswick Electric Power Company.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2
Survey number: HAER CA-2
Building/structure dates: 1911 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1982 Subsequent Work
Subjects:
hydroelectric power plants
Stone buildings
water power
engineering
public utilities
Mining
Place:
California -- Tehama County -- Red Bluff
Latitude/Longitude: 40.17861, -122.23472
Bookmark /ca1023/ 8x12 inches.
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Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
