SEGECO = Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Co.
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| University of Southern Indiana SIGECO (Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Co.) power plant at 2501 Broadway Ave., on the Ohio River. It was built in 1928. |
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| Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library |
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| Dave Fillman posted 1920s power company sign inside the turbine hall of a long decommissioned plant. Tim Sullivan: Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company (SIGECO) Ohio River Station? |
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| Dave Fillman commented on Dave's post I can't reconcile the photos I found with the buildings that remain in the satellite image. https://digital.evpl.org/digital/collection/evaphotos/id/111/ https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9677893,-87.604313,191a,35y,39.43t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US Tim Sullivan: Dennis DeBruler That’s the lighted signage laying on the floor of the turbine deck at Ohio River Station. It was once a beautiful site on the river. |
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| 1916 Henderson Quad @ 62,500 [The upper-left corner of this extract was the Bucyrus-Erie/Vulcan Steam Shovel Plant.] |
Note the flood wall behind the pump house. As this photo shows, the pump house was surrounded by the river during the 1937 flood.
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| 3D Satellite |
"The heart of its system became the giant Ohio River Station generation plant, which was built during the mid-1920s and expanded throughout the 1930s." Both the electric and gas business continued to prosper during the depression. [FundingUniverse]
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| University of Southern Indiana |
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| University of Southern Indiana |
The smokestack configuration did change significantly.
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| University of Southern Indiana |
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