Missouri State Archives Finding Aid [998.492] MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Collection Abstract: Records and photographs of Corps of Engineer dam and reservoir projects in Missouri, specifically regarding cemetery relocations. Projects are Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir (aka Kaysinger Bluff), Long Branch Dam and Reservoir, Longview Lake, Pomme de Terre Dam and Reservoir, Smithville Dam and Lake, and Stockton Dam and Reservoir. Extent: 2 ½ Cubic Feet (consists of 1 cubic foot of printed records and 1,928 photographs) Physical Description: Photographs; Negatives; Slides; Paper; Maps Location: Missouri State Archives; Stacks ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Alternative Formats: None Access Restrictions: None Publication Restrictions: None Preferred Citation: [description of item], [date]; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Collection, Record Group 998.492; Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. Acquisition Information: Gift; Accession #2018-0227 Processing Information: Processing completed by EW on 10/04/2018 HISTORICAL NOTES The United States Army Corps of Engineers dates back to the Colonial period and the Continental Congress. The Corps has grown significantly since then and is responsible for many flood prevention and control projects throughout the United States. The United States Department of Defense oversees the Corps. Most of Missouri is covered through the Kansas City District, which is part of the Northwestern Division. The Mississippi River region of Missouri falls under the Rock Island District and St. as of 10/22/2018 U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS COLLECTION, MS492 Louis District of the Mississippi Valley Division. (Historically, the state fell under the Missouri River Division until that division was combined with the North Pacific in April 1997 to create the NW Division.) Divisions are arranged by watersheds and river basins. The Northwestern Division’s “primary civil works missions encompass flood damage reduction, navigation, hydropower, fish and wildlife, water quality, irrigation, recreation, and disaster response. Within its jurisdiction are 77 dams and reservoirs, 29 hydropower plants, and 1,600 miles of navigable channels.” (Quoted from http://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/About/History/ on 10/4/2018) The records in this manuscript collection primarily focus on cemetery assessments and removals necessitated by the construction of dams and reservoirs. ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION Related Collections MS192 Gerald Massie Photograph Collection MS250 Union Electric Company’s Cemetery Relocation Plats RG110 Department of Natural Resources: National Register of Historic Places Clay, Floyd M. A Century on the Mississippi: A History of the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1876-1976. Memphis, TN: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District, 1976. Reference Room Call No. R 627.1 C5791. Dobney, Fredrick J. River Engineers on the Middle Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978. Reference Room Call No. R 627.0977 D655. Grantham, Larry. An Intensive Survey of Archaeological Resources in the Proposed Long Branch Reservoir: An Archaeological Project Conducted for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City, Missouri District by Northeast Missouri State University. Kirksville: Northeast Missouri State University, 1977. 5 Vols. Reference Room Call No. R 977.827 G7677. Jones, Linda Newcom. The Longview We Remember. United States: Storm Ridge Press, 1993, 3rd Ed. On Jackson County shelf in Reference Room. Ruddy, T. Michael. Damning the Dam: The St. Louis District Corps of Engineers and the Controversy over the Meramec Basin Project from Its Inception to Its Deauthorization. St. Louis: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1992. Reference Room Call No. R 333.91 R831. St. Louis Genealogical Society. Cemetery Relocations by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas. St. Louis: St. Louis Genealogical Society, c1977. Reference Room Call No. R 929.377 St1065. Missouri State Archives Page 2 of 224 Finding Aid 998.492 as of 10/22/2018 U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS COLLECTION, MS492 Tweet, Roald D. A History of the Rock Island District Corps of Engineers. Rock Island, IL: U.S. Army Engineer District, Rock Island, 1975. Reference Room Call No. R 977.3 T916. Additional External Resources U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research & Development Center Library: http://acwc.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library: https://cdm16021.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/. MAIN SERIES Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir Long Branch Dam and Reservoir Longview Lake Pomme de Terre Dam and Reservoir Smithville Dam and Lake Stockton Dam and Reservoir Missouri State Archives Page 3 of 224 Finding Aid 998.492 as of 10/22/2018 U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS COLLECTION, MS492 HARRY S. TRUMAN DAM AND RESERVOIR HISTORICAL NOTES The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Kaysinger Bluff Dam and Reservoir project was signed into law on September 3, 1954 as the River and Harbor Flood Control Act of 1954. The bill authorized the project that would dam the Osage River with the purpose of flood control. The dam would be located on the River at a site called Kaysinger Bluff in Benton County, Missouri. However, funding for the project would not come for nearly a decade. The total cost ended up at over $500 million. A groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site on October 9, 1964. (See MS192 for photographs of the groundbreaking.) Six years later the project was re-named in honor of Missouri native and former President to the Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir. The Dam began operating in 1979. The lake that would result from the dam would flood parts of Benton, Hickory, Henry, and St. Clair Counties. The potential flooded areas needed to be examined closely by the Corps with regard to personal property, roads, railroads, utility lines, towns, cemeteries and other structures. The flood contour was measured at 742 feet. Anything at or below that level needed to be assessed for potential removal. The bulk of the materials in this collection concern cemetery assessments and removals. Approximately 112 cemeteries were investigated for this project. At least 45 of those cemeteries were at or below flood pool levels, were disinterred and then reinterred in new locations. The Corps split the cemeteries that would have to be moved to new locations into five plans. Plan A Plan B Plan C Plan D Plan E Balliette Barclay Carleton Bear Creek School Fields (Corbin) Davenport Byrum (Sharp) Chastain Dunning McNew Davis Cooper Old Kinkead Pruett Mead Downing Crabtree 1 Old Tebo Church Talley Bend Smarr Failer Cunningham “A” Willitt Fairfield Cunningham “B” Wisner (McConnell) Hogles Creek Harvey Jones Henderson Kenny Old L.P. Union McNeely Means Park Moad Peal Bend Monroe Tomahawk Pippins Wright A Tipton Missouri State Archives Page 4 of 224 Finding Aid 998.492 as of 10/22/2018 U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS COLLECTION, MS492 Wright B Wisdom Wright C 1527 Remains* 768 Remains* 1154 Remains* 636 Remains* 89 Remains* *Totals listed here came from one document in the general correspondence files and may not be the final numbers. TIMELINE Date Event 09/03/1954 River and Harbor Flood Control Act of 1954 (Public Law 83-780) authorizes the Kaysinger Bluff Dam and Reservoir project as a flood control measure 10/23/1962 River and Harbor Flood Control Act of 1962 (Public Law 87-874) adds hydropower, recreation, and fish and wildlife management to the project’s goals 10/09/1964 Groundbreaking ceremony held 10/03/1966 Cemetery removals begin 05/26/1970 The project is re-named the Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir (Public Law 91-267) Oct. 1979 Dam operation begins SERIES General, 1960-1988 Maps, 1964-1982 General Photographs, 1973-1981 Akers (Akin) Cemetery, 1965 Askins Cemetery, 1978 Balliette Cemetery, 1960-1967 Barclay Cemetery, 1966-1986 Bear Creek School (Corbin) Cemetery and Bear Creek Church Cemetery #10, 1960-1979 Bethlehem Church Cemetery, 1960-1967 Blackwell Cemetery, 1966 Brownington Cemetery, 1966-1973 Bunch Cemetery, 1972-1978 Byrum (Sharp) Cemetery, 1965-1975 Bysor Cemetery, 1981 Campbell (Martin) Cemetery, 1965-1981 Carleton Cemetery, 1967-1975 Chastain Cemetery, 1975 Coe Cemetery, 1962 Combs Cemetery, 1967 Cooper Cemetery, 1960-1975 Crabtree Cemeteries, 1965-1981 Culbertson Cemetery, 1978 Missouri State Archives Page 5 of 224 Finding Aid 998.492 as of 10/22/2018 U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS COLLECTION, MS492 Cunningham “A” Cemetery, 1964-1975 Cunningham “B” Cemetery, 1965-1975 Davenport Cemetery, 1962-1967 Davis Cemetery, 1962-1967 Deepwater Cemetery, 1980 Downing Cemetery, 1962-1967 Dunning Cemetery, 1960-1979 Englewood Cemetery, 1960-1982 Failer Cemetery, 1962-1967 Fairfield Cemetery, 1960-1972 Fewel Cemetery, 1970 Fields Cemetery, 1977-1980 Fields Creek Cemetery, 1978-1980 Gilbert Cemetery, 1967-1984 Good Cemetery, 1960-1978 Graham Cemetery, 1966-1975 Gregory Cemetery, 1962 Gutridge Cemetery, 1965 Harris Bend Cemetery, 1969 Hartville Cemetery, 1969-1984 Harvey Cemetery, 1965-1975 Henderson Cemetery, 1965-1978 Hogles Creek Cemetery, 1960-1971 Hoppe-Noble Cemetery, 1978 Houk Cemetery, 1966-1990 Humper Cemetery, 1966-1967 Iconium Cemetery, 1971 Indian Mound, 1962-1973 Johnston Cemetery, 1965-1982 Jones Cemetery, 1962-1967 Joplin (Mt. Herman) Cemetery, 1964-1989 Kennedy Cemetery, 1962 Kenny Cemetery, 1962 Kindrick Cemetery, 1976-1977 Kinkead Cemeteries, 1960-1975 L.P. Union Cemeteries, 1960-1981 Maplewood Cemetery,