File:Rocky Ford Power Plant, Manhattan, Kansas, 1944.png

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The Rocky Ford Dam and power plant buildings, Manhattan Kansas

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English: The Rocky Ford Dam and power plant buildings, Manhattan Kansas. Hydroelectric and gas-fired steam power, under operation by Kansas Power and Light. Photograph by US Corps of Engineers in 1944, in survey for the Tuttle Creek Lake.[1]

Note the filled in half-windows on the roof line of the stone building; these are the result of reconstruction after the fire of 1919 that destroyed the roof.[2]
Date 1944[1]
Source Brian McNulty, Operations Project Manager, Tuttle Creek Lake – Lake Operations and current construction activities (PDF), United States Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, p. 30, 35-37, retrieved 2019-08-08
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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  1. ↑ a b Brian McNulty, Operations Project Manager, Tuttle Creek Lake
  2. ↑ Rich Dalton (July 18, 1948). "History of Rocky Ford". The Manhattan Mercury: 9. "A bolt of lightning ignited the roof. ... The top floor has been cut off and the half-windows remaining have been shut with cement and stone."

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