{"id":8593,"date":"2012-12-10T20:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T20:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?page_id=8593"},"modified":"2015-09-01T12:44:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:44:02","slug":"long-island-mill-dam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/community\/under-lkn\/long-island-mill-dam","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Mill Dam (Under Lake Norman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/long_island_mill_dam.jpg\" alt=\"Long Island Mill Dam\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The growth of the Long Island Cotton Mill in the early 1900s led to a need for additional power. This need was met with the construction of a new a new concrete dam in 1919, which replaced the old log dam across the Catawba River. The low dam spanned the river from Catawba County side to Iredell County side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong> (approximate): 35.681, -80.981<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Josey, Jerry. 1959, Sept 25. \u201cMill at Long Island Will Close.\u201d <em>Statesville Record and Landmark<\/em>, page 3.<\/p>\n<p>Long Island, NC Facebook page. 2011-Present. Accessed: 12\/10\/2012. Available: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/t091939r?fref=ts\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/t091939r?fref=ts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of the Long Island Cotton Mill in the early 1900s led to a need for additional power. This need was met with the construction of a new a new concrete dam in 1919, which replaced the old log dam across the Catawba River. The low dam spanned the river from Catawba County side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":8359,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21547,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8593\/revisions\/21547"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}