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The
Tucapau Mill, plus the great Pelzer Mill, were two of the first
mills in the Unites States to have transmission lines and
purposely built power plants set away at a distance to require
overhead transmission lines between the two in order to gain a
new source. At Berry Shoals in 1900 the plant opened for
the first time to supply power to the mill some two and a half
miles away, just six years after the power plant at Pelzer
had been finished. Luckily, due to the remoteness of the plant
at Pelzer on the Saluda River the plant remains today and
has been restored to working order. The following link gives a
good indication as to how these first Hydroelectric plants
looked from the inside - http://www.nfei.com/Pelzer.html.
The plant at Tucapau is smaller in size but interesting.
Below a plan of the Berry Shoals plant in 1903 - 1904.
To
gain an idea of how the plant looked at Berry Shoals, plus the McCormick
turbines & G.E. generator a photo inside the Columbia Mill,
SC power station ( 1897 ) gives a good
comparison between the two.
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