1957_09-24-GENERAL-VIEW-OF-EXCAVATION-AREA-FOR-TAINTOR-GATES_LOOKING-W_bac_DSC03824_2012-PF.jpg 1957_09-24-GENERAL-VIEW-OF-EXCAVATION-AREA-FOR-TAINTOR-GATES_LOOKING-W_bac_DSC03824_2012-PF.jpg

General view of excavation area for installation of Taintor Gates, looking west. September 24, 1957.  The gates were installed after the Flood of 1955 raised concerns about the possibility of high water damaging the dam.  (Photo Courtesy of Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman, Inc., Branford.  Their parent company, C. W. Blakeslee & Sons built the Stevenson Dam in 1917.)
 

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