Photographs of the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project constructed between 1918-1961.
<p>The Gorge Dam and Powerhouse were built by Seattle City Light and completed in September of 1924.
</p><p>The Gorge Dam construction camp at the mouth of Newhalem Creek grew to a town of 1,000 residents with a school and a church, but it did not have a name. When the city council visited the settlement in the summer of 1921, some college students employed on the project greeted them with a wood plank inscribed, "Welcome to Newhalem."  The name stuck.
</p><p>Caption on image: 5156. 7-17-21
</p><p>Caption below image: Newhalem Camp - Skagit River
</p><p>PH Coll 45.1-41
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<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Work camps--Washington (State)--Newhalem; Mountains--Washington (State)</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Newhalem (Wash.)</li></ul>
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