Keywords: Spalding, Nebraska wheel house from US.JPG Spalding Power Plant and Dam complex in Spalding Nebraska Water is diverted from the Cedar River into a headrace; passes through a hydroelectric generator in the wheel house the small white-roofed building at right ; and returns to the river via the tailrace The concrete block building in the upper center of the photo contains a diesel generator The complex is listed in the National Register of Historic Places The wheel house was built in 1913; the diesel-generator building in 1919 The photo was taken from upstream east of Mill Street; the headrace passes under Mill through the sluice gate visible in the center of the photo and then into the wheel house own Ammodramus 2010-05-21 Pictures by Ammodramus Taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20 Spalding Nebraska power plant |