Description: Original description reads: "Hydraulic job at W. Carrolton, O. (State spillway or wasteway)." After the great flood of 1913, much was done to prevent future flooding of the Miami River. Governor James M. Cox helped to gain passage of the Vonderheide Act, which is also known as the Ohio Conservancy Law, in 1914. The law gave the state the authority to establish watershed districts and to raise funds for improvements through taxes. In 1915, the Miami Conservancy District was created in response to the Vonderheide Act. It became the first major watershed district in the nation, resulting in extensive modifications to the river channel in and around Dayton. A spillway, shown in this photograph, is a passage for surplus water to run over or around a dam. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F08_032_1
Subjects: Hydraulic structures--Ohio--Dayton
Places: West Carrolton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Montgomery Co., W. Carrolton, O., Jan. 1938. State Wasteway from Paper Mill to River passing under the Hydraulic." The paper mills of West Carrollton have been the most important source of jobs for residents of this town from the late 1800s until the present. The river mentioned in the above caption refers to the Miami River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F08_029_1
Subjects: Hydraulic structures--Ohio--West Carrollton
Places: West Carrollton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: The original description reads: "This is a view of the New Canal bridge at West Carrolton taken March 24, 1911." This photo shows the state of the Miami and Erie canal near Dayton in the 1910s. The Miami and Erie Canal connected the Ohio River in Cincinnati and Lake Erie in Toledo and was completed in 1845. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F06_034
Subjects: Canals--Ohio--Pictorial works; Canals--Ohio--Dayton; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken April 16, 1937, this photograph shows the Dixie Highway in Montgomery County, Ohio. A note on the photograph's reverse reads "Dixie Highway. S. of W. Carrolton, Montgomery County (Rout. 25). View looking North on Dixie Highway. Showing Viaduct-Canal-Highway-and Interurban Track on left." Work on the construction of the Dixie Highway started in 1915, a conception of automobile producer Carl G. Fisher. The highway, made up of a connection of paved roads, stretches from the Straits of Mackinac, in Mackinac, Michigan to Miami, Florida. Divided into two sections, a western route makes stops in South Bend, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; and Atlanta, Georgia: while an eastern route makes stops in Detroit, Michigan; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Jacksonville, Florida. In Ohio, Dixie Highway passes through Toledo, Dayton, and Cincinnati. The highway is now U.S. route 25 to Cincinnati. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F05_004_1
Subjects: Dixie Highway; Highways; Transportation; Public works; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: West Carrollton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)