WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO COLLECTION
Photo WCHS-03900
The remains of the original dam at Shem, built in 1916 of brush and straw covered with sand.
The site selected for the new Shem Dam is in the background.
The photo was taken in March 1933.
The camera is looking south.
This photo is from the Luther M. Winsor Papers, COLL MSS 98, Photograph 33-194,
Special Collections and Archives, MerrillCazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
It is included here with permission as part of the Washington County Historical Society's (WCHS) task
from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to provide a Shem Dam interpretive website.
See Page 59 of the Historic American Engineering Record, Shem Dam (Winsor Dam), HAER No. UT-96
prepared by Scott O'Mack, William Self Associates, Inc., for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS), March 2016, 96 Pages [Large file, so this may take a while to load]