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LocationCroton Dam Road at Muskegon River,
Croton vicinity, MI
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Documentation compiled after 1968.
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Survey number HAER MI-81-B
Significance: The Croton Hydroelectric Plant powerhouse was designed by William G. Fargo, a Jackson, Michigan civil engineer who specialized in the design of small and mid-sized hydroelectric plants in the Midwest in the early Twentieth Century. This building housed the turbines, generators, and transformers used to produce record-setting high voltage transmission of electrical power in 1908.
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Brick BuildingsPowerhouses
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Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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