The Ware Shoals Hydroelectric Plant is still in operation since 1906. It was built on the Saluda River by the Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company in Ware Shoals, SC. The powerhouse design is very similar, if not the same as Boyd's Mill Pond 1909. Completed in 1906, electricity drove the Ware Shoals Cotton Mill [id=344379915] until the 1980s and is now owned by ENEL America, selling power the Duke Energy. Multiple addition like the brick add-on and surge tank were added onto the original stone power house. Ware Shoals transmission line was very short, less then a mile in length and in an urban area. I have no clue what the insulators were and probably never will. 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 [you are here] Saluda Dam 1907 [id=268330246] 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] |