Tennessee Valley Authority property and acquisitions collection, 1917-1941.

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Tennessee Valley Authority property and acquisitions collection, 1917-1941.

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Contains correspondence, blueprints, maps, equipment and property inventories, statistical reports, and purchase contracts related to the purchase and acquisition of the Tennessee Public Service Company by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The papers reflect information TVA needed to finalize the take-over, which was achieved in September 1938.

4 boxes (5.0 linear ft.)Oversized items: 4 folders.

East Tennessee State University, TET

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SNAC Resource ID: 7382386

East Tennessee State University, TET

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Tennessee Public Service Company.

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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, ...