Mountain Island: rapids past a wooded island in a valley – Antique Print
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A window into the past: Mountain Island: rapids past a wooded island in a valley, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mountain Island: rapids past a wooded island in a valley
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Mountain Island is a wooded island on the Catawba River, just west of Charlotte, and the rapids in this view show the river before its waters were held back. The shoals that once broke around the island were a familiar feature of the Catawba, which drops steadily through the Piedmont toward the coastal plain. In the 1920s, power companies dammed the river to create reservoirs for hydroelectric generation, and the rising water eventually covered much of this rocky stretch. The picture records a landscape that changed quickly once the river became a source of electricity for the growing region.
| Original scan | 3,253 × 2,470 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 135 NC Mountain Island |
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