|
Waterways Experiment Station
|
|
|
|
|
| Location: | Roughly bounded by Spillway, Durden Creek, Tennessee Rd., and Dam Spillway, Vicksburg, Mississippi |
|---|---|
| Area: | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
| Built: | 1930 |
| Architect: | US Army Corps of Engineers |
| Architectural style: | WES |
| Governing body: | ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS |
| NRHP Reference#: | 00001511[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | December 13, 2000 |
The Waterways Experiment Station, also known as WES-Original Cantonment in Vicksburg, Mississippi, was built in 1930 as an Army Corps of Engineers research facility. Its campus is the site of the headquarters of the Engineer Research and Development Center of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
The facility was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2000 in part for its architecture. The listing was for a 16-acre (6.5 ha) area roughly bounded by Spillway, Durden Creek, Tennessee Rd., and Dam Spillway, in Vicksburg, with five contributing buildings and three contributing structures.[1]
A summary of the first 75 years of the station reports:
The history of engineering is the story of men and women in their attempts to understand, control, and accommodate their environment. In 1929 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established a small hydraulics laboratory in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in recognition of the increasingly vital role of scientific investigation in a laboratory setting as a necessary adjunct to the age-old practice of actual hands-on observation. Discoveries emanating from the laboratory, designated as the Waterways Experiment Station, paid immediate dividends and sparked a new confidence among the nation’s engineering community to make bold advancements and challenge or affirm long-standing doctrines. This initial success broadened the Waterways Experiment Station’s activities from mere hydraulic experiments for the Mississippi River to a Corp of Engineers-wide mission encompassing diverse fields of research.[2][3]
|
||||||||||||||||||||