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C. Pogue Public History InstituteForrest
C. Pogue Public History Institute
The Kentucky Dam Village History Project was a National Register of Historic Places submission project which employed graduate student Eric Rousey during the 1994-1995 school year. The project involved Kentucky Dam Village, a worker village constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) during construction of Kentucky Dam near Gilbertsville, Kentucky from 1938-1945.
The Kentucky Dam Village History Project began as a joint undertaking of the Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park, TVA, and Murray State University. A grant from the Kentucky Heritage Council to the history department of Murray State University has funded the surveying of the structures at the Kentucky Dam Village site for submission to the National Registry of Historic Places. Included as part of this work will be a written history of the construction of the Dam and life in the Dam Village. In order to compile this history, the Kentucky Dam Village Project has worked with the Forrest C. Pogue Oral History Institute, also at MSU.
It is our feeling that the best way to understand fully the construction of the Dam and life in the Village is to listen to the remembrances of the people who were actually there. So one of the main goals of the Kentucky Dam Village Project was the compilation of an oral history of Kentucky Dam. This consisted of a number of interviews with the men and women involved in the TVA's work. Workers, wives, administrators, children growing up in the village, and others have been interviewed during the course of our work.
To look at the completed description and statement of significance for Kentucky Dam Village.
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Updated 12/12/97 Comments to Bill.Mulligan@murraystate.edu.