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Group celebrating the opening of the Fries Manufacturing and Power Company hydro-electric plant on the Yadkin River, 1898.

Group celebrating the opening of the Fries Manufacturing and Power Company hydro-electric plant on the Yadkin River, 1898.

People are:(standing) Mr. Taft (electrical erecting engineer), Henry E. Fries (general manager), Mr. Claflin (electrical engineer); (children seated) Vivian Owens (later Mrs. Fred Noell) and Frank Reynolds; (others seated) Mrs. Taft, Miss Valeska Steffen, Mrs. Henry E. Fries, Anna Marguerite Fries, no ID, Miss Lee Beckham.

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