Butler Project collection, 1983-1984.

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Butler Project collection, 1983-1984.

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The collection consists of a slide carousel containing 101 35mm slides, a 60-minute audio cassette narration, and narration notes and slide cues. The slide-tape program concerns the draw down of Watauga Lake in 1983 and the reminiscences of persons who remembered Butler (Old Butler), Tenn., before the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) lake covered the town in 1948.

101 slides ; 35 mm + 1 sound cassette (60 min.)

East Tennessee State University, TET

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SNAC Resource ID: 7393936

East Tennessee State University, TET

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Elizabethton High School (Elizabethton, Tenn.). Butler Project.

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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, ...