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Smokestacks at TVA's Shawnee Steam Plant

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Stock #:201155
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Paducah
State: Kentucky (KY)
County: McCracken
Publisher: Curt Teich & Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Additional Details:
These 10 stacks, one from each generating unit, tower 250 feet above the ground at Shawnee Steam Plant, which is being built by the Tennessee Valley Authority near Paducah, Ky. This $216,000,000 power plant will generate 1,500,000 kilowatts, part of the power requirements of the new billion dollar Atomic Energy Plant, also near Paducah. Construction of both plants was begun in January 1951, with completion scheduled for late 1955
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