Judith Ann Maupin papers, 1973-1982.

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Judith Ann Maupin papers, 1973-1982.

Collection consists of typescript lists and maps of cemeteries removed during the Kentucky Lake Cemetery Relocation Project by the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1939 to 1943. The papers contain photocopies of cemetery removal forms created by the Tennessee Valley Authority which include name of deceased, relative contacted, disposition desired and the contractor who reinterred the body. The collection also includes newspaper clippings of her column "Echoes from the Past" from 1978 to 1982.

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Kentucky Lake Cemetery Relocation Project.

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Maupin, Judith Ann, 1937-1982.

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Judith Ann Maupin was a local historian, newspaper columnist and genealogist from Calloway County, Kentucky. She wrote a weekly column on regional history in the Murray Ledger & Times and authored several books on family history and forgotten cemeteries in southwestern Kentucky. From the description of Judith Ann Maupin papers, 1973-1982. (Murray State University). WorldCat record id: 663907785 ...

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, ...