1. Produced by Donald R. Privett, Ph.D.- P.G. Environmental and Engineering Geologist Lower Catawba River Valley of Southern Chester and Lancaster Counties, S.C. - Geology - Archeology and History Part 3. 7/26/05 DRP ver. 7

2. Rock Jointing

3. Vertical north - south jointing.

4. Jointing Sloping About 45 Degrees South.

5. Unusual jointing.

6. Vertical exposure showing exfoliation. Horizontal jointing.

7. Other interesting features.

8. cavernous weathering

10. Large thin exfoliation granite slab moved by flood waters .

11. Same Slab Later Broken by an Ignorant Person.

13. Native American Artifacts. Points picked up at the surface.

14. More Points .

15. Pottery Pieces

16. Petroglyph?

18. 1825 map showing Catawba River natural flow near Great Falls.

19. Duke Power drawing for area circa 1912.

24. The House Settled on a Location at or Near Knoxville, Tennessee, January 1816 Was the Last Time That Mount Dearborn Was Considered As the Site for an Additional Military Academy.

27. The Great Falls Details

28. Arsenal at Fort Dearborn

30. Canal ruins on Dearborn Island

31. Canal wall

32. Canal wall remnants.

33. Canal Ruins on South End of Dearborn Island.

34. Keystone for canal keepers house

35. Lock Keeper House.

37. House moved to and reconstructed at Landsford Canal State Park .

38. Nitrolee - an unfinished fertilizer plant.

39. Nitrolee unfinished fertilizer plant x

41. Nitrolee Main arc building, transformers in roof.

43. What happened here?

45. Dam Construction Relict. Crane Support.?

48. Construction artifact. Cable grooving of granite.

51. Flood

53. After heavy rain the spillway floods.

54. A population of Catawba lilies were present in riverbed of Nitrolee diversion.

55. Hiking Trails

57. Large tors along the trail are nice for quite contemplation or a picnic.

58. The area in and around Great Falls is economically depressed. Closing of three textile mills in the 1970’s was an economic death warrant. Population continues to decline and poverty is wide spread.

59. A recreation based economy is hampered by the presence of real and perceived environmental contamination. Clean up is slow to come but it must be done if Dearborn Island is to be considered as a possible State park.

60. Brownfields Will Be Eradicated. Back No.2.

61. Number 2 Brownfield

62. Spill of diesel oil, at No.2, environmental management by county should have discovered problem before accident.

64. The beginning -- a rebirth of downtown.

65. Downtown Great Falls

66. New streetscape.

67. Appendices 1. Geologic Time Scale 2. Geologic map of area.

69. MGR

70. Acknowledgements Duke Enegry map from online site. Chris Ey, DTA, a consultant to Duke Power, provided the profile graphic and aerial photographs. References Linton, D. L., 1955, The problem of tors. Geograph. Jour ., v. 121, 470. Lossing, B., 1850, Pictoral Field Book of the Revolution V.2. Privett, D. R., 2005, Geomorphic Features in the Catawba River, Great Falls, Southeastern Chester and Southwestern Lancaster Counties, South Carolina:, in press, South Carolina Geology, v. 48 , p. Privett, D. R.,1997, Catawba River Bed Geology, Near Great Falls Southeastern Chester and Lancaster Counties, South Carolina: Abstracts with program; Southeast G.S.A. v. 29, no.3, p.63-64. Privett, D. R., 1998, Tor Fields in the Great Falls Metagranite And their Influence On The Catawba River Sub-Grade, Chester County, South Carolina: Abstracts with program; Southeast G.S.A .v. 30, no.4, p.55. Privett,D.R., 1985, The Great Falls metagranite, north central S.C.: South Carolina Geology, v. 28, p. 1 -5. Thomas, M. F., 1965, Some aspects of the geomorphology of domes and tors in Nigeria: Zeit. Geomorph., NF 9, 63-81. Wade, A.P., 1977, Mount Dearborn: The National Armory at Rocky Mount, SC, 1802 - 1829, South Carolina Historical Magazine v.78 , p. 207 - 225 and 316 -341.