Newspaper article:Page 3 of Wooster Daily Record,published in Wooster, Ohio on Monday, November 2nd, 1936 - April 13 2023
- Article title
- Congress Students Visit Walhonding Mohawk Dam
- Newspaper title
- The Daily Record
- Date of publication
- 1936/11/02
- Page number
- 3
- Organization
Full text
"The physics and soils classes of Congress High School made a trip to Mohawk Dam on the Walhonding River, fourteen miles of Coshocton, on October 16. They divided into three groups, and left the school building at noon, in three cars. Taking route 76 out of Wooster through Millersburg to Coshocton, and there turned off on route 36 to Warsaw and the dam.
On the way they enjoyed the beautiful scenery, the high rocky hills, forested with trees who leaves were beginning to turn colors of red, yellow and brown. They saw sand and gravel pits, coal mines and the old barge canal just out of Coshocton. Writing about it they say:
It turned out that we might have picked a better day for our excursion, as shortly after we started it began to drizzle and continued throughout the length of our visit there, turning the site into an extremely muddy and sloppy place. But that didn't stop us, we had come there to view the dam, and to get as many facts concerning it as we could, and that's just what we did.
All of us were surprised that it was so large. The length is 3,250 feet and has an angle of 30 degree in the middle of it. It is 114 feet high 8_5 feet wide at the bottom and across the top, which is thirty feet, will be constructed a modern roadway. The center of the dam is composed of clay, this is then covered with a layer of sand and the outside covering of large rocks. The dam proper is one of the largest earthen dam projects ever undertaken in the U. S. When completed it will back the Walhounding River up nearly 45 miles, and is costing the American government nearly five million dollars.
We also watched the rock being drilled with the pneumatic drills which were operated with compressed air. The air compressors were operated on the hydraulic principles. After looking at the trucks and tractors we found that it was after three o'clock and time to wind our way homeward. The time had passed entirely too fast for all that were on the trip.
The journey home bound found us traveling through Danville to Jelloway then home on Route 3.
It was an interesting trip well work the time spent on it. It gave us an idea of the huge undertaking, and many highlights on the construction and the principles of Physics that are involved in the construction of a dam."