Tennessee Electric Power Company records, 1905-1941.

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Tennessee Electric Power Company records, 1905-1941.

Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal documents, drawings, ledgers, photographs, and other office records.

108 linear ft.

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Tennessee Electric Power Company

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Tennessee Electric Power Company (TEPCO), formed on May 27, 1922, when the Tennessee Power Company, Chattanooga Railway & Light, and the Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power Company merged; operating from 1922 through August 15, 1939, at which time all properties were transferred to the Tennessee Valley Authority. From the description of Tennessee Electric Power Company records, 1905-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 272425794 ...

Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...