Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterways, 1948 - 1963

File — Box: 114, Folder: 2361-2363

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Letters, papers, newsclippings, speeches, newsletters, advertisements, memos.

Dates

Creation: 1948 - 1963

Creator

From the Collection: Jones, Robert E. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Extent

From the Collection: 288 Linear feet (281 boxes, 2 oversize, and 31 binders.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Correspondence: TN-Tombigbee (information, thank you's, appropriations, restudy analysis, information requests, status, Congressional campaigning, surveys, expenditures, Wheeler Dam lock wall collapse). REP: Digest of President's Finding on Warrior Tombigbee Development Association, TN-Tombigbee Waterway (Chief of Engineers Final, restudy, status, Precedents for Tombigbee). SPEECH: Mr. H.A. Navis (TN-Tombigbee development), BJ (Construction of TN-Tombigbee Canal a Vital Necessity. STATE: BJ (TN-Tombigbee Waterway Appropriations, Lock Dams Construction), John Paterson AL Governor (PW Subcmte on Appropriations). PAM: TN-Tombigbee (various), Ground Breaking Ceremony of Holt Lock and Dam. MAP: TN-Tombigbee Waterway (Profile, Development). RES: TN-Tombigbee (endorsements). LEGIS: HR4818, HR4648, HR4633, HR4668, HR4823, Tombigbee-TN Compact, AL Law Act #355. ALSO: Clip, telegram, newsletter, notice, NR, notes on above subjects