The Saluda Dam was built by the Greenville-Carolina Power Company to drive cotton mills and power electric lighting in the town of Greenville in 1907. An image of the dam in 1907 can be viewed here: [id=268330112]. The powerhouse had four Westinghouse generators. The transmission line ran to three different mills, the Carolina Mills, Brandon Mill [id=344558246] and the Greenville City substation. Lima insulators were used on Locke pins, part of the line was standing with poles from the 1940s [id=268329666]. Those poles are now replaced by modern Duke energy lines. Another pair of ancient poles now stand in the face of destruction in Greenville, SC [id=361629637].

In 1910, Saluda Dam was sold to the Southern Public Utilities Company under the Southern Power Company and tied into the Southern Power Co. grid. Today the Saluda Dam is owened and operated by Northbrook Energy, LLC, selling power to Duke Energy.

See a crossarm originally mounted to the building found in a pile of timber from the head gates [id=363190795].

The image above is from 2010 of the Saluda Dam powerhouse.

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The Hydroelectric Power Plants of South Carolina Collection:

High Shoals 1894 [id=332186800]

Pelzer Lower Dam 1895 [id=360186922]

Portman Shoals 1897 [id=340212432]

Berry Shoals 1903 [id=330110326]

Holiday Shoals 1905 [id=332438399]

Ware Shoals 1906 [id=347219612]

Saluda Dam 1907 [you are here]

Gaston Shoals 1908 [id=346266588]

Rocky Creek 1908 [id=429285050]

Boyd's Mill Pond 1909 [id=429197935]

Ninety-Nine Islands 1909 [id=358895213]

Fork Shoals -1910 [id=366408583]

Tumblin' Shoals 1912 [id=366398406]

Coneross 1912 [id=361466115]