  Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 44 Registered: 01-2007 |
 The original photographer labeled this photo "Hyd. Plant." For a larger version of the photo, please click here Ookpik | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 3040 Registered: 10-2003 |
Probably one of Edison's hydro plants on the Huron River. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 191 Registered: 03-2006 |
I think Mikem is correct again. I believe it is the French Landing Dam on the Huron River that created Belleville Lake. http://www.questoutdoors.net/u nderattack/huron/ | ||
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey Post Number: 147 Registered: 03-2006 |
Jackson prison. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 109 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hmm, there are definite similiarities in these photos. But I do notice the Chimney has switched sides. Or are these pictures taken looking at the structure from opposite sides? I don't know enough about dams to tell if one side is the front and one is the back. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 623 Registered: 08-2006 |
Transposition of the slide? | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 571 Registered: 12-2005 |
Both pics were taken from the downstream side. The chimney and the "staircase" structure are both actually located on the left (southwest) side of the dam. That means that Ookpik's negative was transposed.  | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 3042 Registered: 10-2003 |
Detroit Edison moved into Washtenaw County through the purchase of the Washtenaw Light & Power Company in 1904. WL&P had a small hydroelectric powerplant on the Huron River between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor where Dixboro Road crosses the river. Their interest in WL&P was not just to expand their service territory, but also to anchor a spot on the Huron River for a string of hydro plants up and down the river, and to defend itself from encroachment of Consumers Power from the west. Detroit Edison eventually acquired land along the Huron from French Landing to Dixboro and incorporated it into a subsidiary called Huron Farms. By 1918 they had built three more hydroelectric plants on the river at Barton, Argo, and Superior, and hired noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted to beautify the grounds of the plants. On the lake formed by the Barton Dam, Huron Farms created the Barton Hills Subdivision, which Olmsted also landscaped, and the president of Detroit Edison built a home there in 1919 and thereafter commuted to Detroit.  The company had plans for 9-12 dams and powerplants along the Huron, but by the time they had built the first three, the company had grown so much, that the contribution of the hydro plants amounted to less than 2% of the company's total power production. French Landing, the last hydroelectric plant Edison built, was completed a few years later in 1925. | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 3043 Registered: 10-2003 |
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Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 483 Registered: 10-2006 |
With the damn being that old, are there an issues of the lake potentially disappearing downstream in a few moments length of time? | ||
Ookpik Member Username: Ookpik Post Number: 45 Registered: 01-2007 |
Thanx for the identification and information!  It figures that photo number 13 would not only be backwards but not in Detroit. ;) Ookpik | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 1549 Registered: 12-2005 |
Crap. I've explored that dam! Kept my mouth shut thinking these were not Ann Arbor pictures. It's a beautiful site, well worth a road trip. |
