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THE JAMES: TRANSFORMATION OF AN OZARK RIVER
We chose to profile the James River in a 352-page all color book because its watershed contains the largest town…
1940s View from Table Rock – still no dam
Into the 1940s, visitors continued to visit and pose for photographs on the flat rock above the White River valley…
View from Table Rock – pre-dam, 1920s
Real photo postcard, 1920s, by Payne Johnson, Branson Mo. The white lettering on the card can be hard to read….
Early View of White River Dam, aka Powersite Dam
The first hydroelectric dam in the Ozarks was simply called the “White River Dam.” Soon after, the name was changed…