Site 6 - Stairs Station Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District

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• “Electrifying Zion – The Big Cottonwood Power Transmission, Salt Lake City, Utah.” The Electrical Engineer, September 11, 1895, New York, New York, Vol. 20, no. 384, p. 245-259. The Insulator Gazette, https://reference.insulators.info/publications/.

• Hartvigsen, John M. “Utah’s Mammoth Statehood Flag.” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 79, no. 3, Summer 2011, pp 250-263.

• Haycock, Obed C. “Electric Power Comes to Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 45. Spring 1977.

• “Hydro Hall of Fame: Honoring Three 100-Year-Old Facilities.” Hydro Review. November 1998, p. 1-7.

• “Power Transmission – The Big Cottonwood Power Transmission.” The Electrical Engineer, New York, New York, September 2, 1896, Vol. 22, No. 435, p. 217-221. The Insulator Gazette, https://reference.insulators.info/publications/.

• “Stairs Station: Competing for the Power Market 100 Years Ago.” Hydro Review.  October 1995,  p. 20-22.

• “The Big Cottonwood Power Transmission.” The Journal of Electricity,  New York, New York, August 1896, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 21-24. The Insulator Gazette, https://reference.insulators.info/publications/.

• United State Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Stairs Station Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District, April 20, 1989. https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_UT/89000284.pdf

• Utah Division of State History, Preservation Section. “72770.” December 9, 2020. J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City.  Utah Historic Buildings Collection, National Register Files,  ark:/87278/s61k52pc.