Painesville Water Works

Archive

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Lake County Historical Society

Name/Title

Painesville Water Works

Entry/Object ID

2001.0001074.1

Scope and Content

Pumped first water November, 1882. Supply obtained from wells on Liberty Street at Nickel Plate Crossing. Incorporation of company, $150,000.00 by Mr. B.F. Stephens of New York. Chief stockholders, Mr. C.A. Avery, J. S. Casement and Samuel Woodey. Pumping station erected and standpipe still in use in 1935. Water proved insufficient so another pumping station was built near B&O bridge to draw water from Severance Creek. 1891 plant at Headlands was constructed. 1896 the village purchased the plant from Mr. Stephens for $150,000.00. Water system installed 1907-1908. Present plant built in 1913-1914 at cost of $120,000.00. (1 copy of notes taken from an essay by Ruth Hubbard, and copied by Mary Collacott, describing the Painesville Water Works.)

Collection

Documentary Artifacts

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Manuscript

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Archive Notes

Date(s): Feb. 17, 1935 Level of Description: Item

General Notes

Note

Status: Record updated Status By: VR Status Date: 2017-05-16