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PL&Ps first hydro plant built in 1898
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Named Plant Four although it was the first hydro plant built on Bishop Creek, the facility had grown ivy-covered walls by the time this photo was taken in 1923
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Named Plant Four although it was the first hydro plant built on Bishop Creek, the facility had grown ivy-covered walls by the time this photo was taken in 1923. Pg. 70.
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The interior of Mill Creek #1 Hydro Plant (as built in 1883)
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The interior of Mill Creek #1 Hydro Plant (as built in 1883), showing the generators and the Pelton Wheels.
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A stretch of fluming being built at Mill Creek #3 Hydro Plant
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A stretch of fluming being built at Mill Creek #3 Hydro Plant.
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This early view of the interior of the Borel Hydro Plant shows the five original generators installed when the plant was built
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This early view of the interior of the Borel Hydro Plant shows the five original generators installed when the plant was built. Subsequently modernized, the Borel Plant remains in operation today.
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The Borel Hydro Plant was built by a subsidiary of the Pacific Light and Power Company
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The Borel Hydro Plant was built by a subsidiary of the Pacific Light and Power Company. Named for Antoine Borel, an early business associate of Henry Huntington, the plant provided electricity to Huntington's growing trolley and utilities business in Southern California from 1904.
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Borel Hydro Plant
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Borel Hydro Plant - Looking down penstocks to the powerhouse. Kern River Power Company (Pacific Light & Power Company).
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