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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District assists

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District assists Newport News Public Schools at the NNPS Engineering Design Challenge held at Newsome Park Elementary School, Newport News, Va., Nov. 2, 2018. Fourth and More

Two young Iraqi youths, involved in a reconstruction project at the Zahko Military Academy, located just outside of Zahko, Iraq, pose for a photograph at their work site. The reconstruction project is funded and under the supervision of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Zahko Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: Jim Gordon, CIV Release Status: Released to Public Comb More

Iraqi subcontractors set bricks and mortar between steel or prefabricated concrete beams, at the annex to the Ibn Sina Army Hospital in the International Zone (IZ), in Baghdad, Iraq. This large rehabilitation project is planned, managed, and quality controlled by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Iraqi Site Managers. Taken during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: Jim Gordon, CIV Release Status: Released to Public Co More

Bay City High School art students and the U.S. Army

Bay City High School art students and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District partnered to paint three-feet high murals at four locations along the Corps-operated Colorado River Locks, to combat wat More

LTC John Cunningham tours the laydown yard in Ponce,

LTC John Cunningham tours the laydown yard in Ponce, Puerto Rico where U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' logistics and materials management staff work to inventory emergency restoration materials in support of Hurr More

The Engineers at Vicksburg, Part Two: Gibraltar of the Confederacy

Union ironclads in action: Joining Farragut at Vicksburg were the ironclad gunboats of the Western Flotilla fresh from their victory at Memphis. But even with these revolutionary warships, the U.S. Navy met wit More

Portrait of Prof. P.C. Boudousquie, who served as a

Portrait of Prof. P.C. Boudousquie, who served as a draftsman and assistant engineer in the Mobile District from 1870 to 1900. (Courtesy of Boudousquie Family)

This is a replica of an original military map of Middle

This is a replica of an original military map of Middle Tennessee from 1874 that is on display in the Barlow Conference Room at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District's Barlow Conference Center loc More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District's

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District's Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) team is partnering with the National Park Service, the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Board and the S.F. Health Dep More

ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M. – James Glover, environmental scientist

ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M. – James Glover, environmental scientist with Britannia Environmental Consulting, (right), points out a feature on a practice bomb held by Mark Dixon, director of Isleta Pueblo’s Department o More

The Washington Monument is illuminated by a projection

The Washington Monument is illuminated by a projection of a Saturn V rocket July 18, 2019, during a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, in which man first walked on the moon. The U.S. More

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District team

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District team members inspect the Times Beach Nature Preserve and former Times Beach confined disposal facility, Buffalo, NY, September 4, 2020. In the 1970s, the Buffalo Di More

Cheryl Michener's high school yearbook photograph.

Cheryl Michener's high school yearbook photograph. Michener graduate in 1970 from Kenmore East High School in Tonawanda, New York. Six years later, Michener began her Federal service as a switchboard operator a More

Army Corps to decommission and dismantle historic, deactivated nuclear power plant at Fort Belvoir

Aerial view of the former SM-1 nuclear power plant on Fort Belvoir in the 1960s. The facility provided limited power to Fort Belvoir and served as a training facility before being deactivated in 1973. SM-1 was More

Nashville District celebrates its 125th Anniversary

Country music star Dolly Parton performs at the Cordell Hull Dam Dedication Oct. 13, 1973, on the shore of the Cumberland River at the dam in Carthage, Tenn. According to an Associated Press report following th More

The STURGIS operating in the Panama Canal Zone where

The STURGIS operating in the Panama Canal Zone where it provided power for several years for military and civilian use. The STURGIS, a former World War II Liberty Ship, was converted into the first floating nuc More

Gathright Dam pulse release

Gathright Dam in Alleghany County, Virginia, impounds water flowing down the Jackson River to create the 2,500-acre Lake Moomaw. Since opening in 1979, the dam has prevented numerous floods, saving countless do More

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District's Operations

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District's Operations team inspects the Amherst flood control project and diversion channels in Amherst, NY, September 11, 2020. The project was built in the late 1980s to m More

This is an aerial view of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

This is an aerial view of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway under construction Jan. 7, 1980. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District built the northern 29 miles of the project, including the massive More

Attending the 1987 Major Command Sergeant Major's Conference at the Pentagon are, seated left to right, SGT MAJ's J. W. Gates, SMA; R. P Halpin Jr., USAREUR; W. B. Tapp Jr., AMC; G. H. Sidwell, WESTCOM; R. Voigt, USACE; R. Polk, USAISC; B. Waninger, CIDC;

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to P More

John O. Arntzen (left) received the U.S. Army's 3rd

John O. Arntzen (left) received the U.S. Army's 3rd highest award for civilian employees from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division (USACE NAD) commander Brig. Gen. William H. Graham (right) at a More

The Ottawa County Sanitary Engineering Department completed

The Ottawa County Sanitary Engineering Department completed Phase I of the Erie Township Sanitary Sewer Project with partial funding through the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-53), Sect More

Congressman Hal Rogers, Kentucky 5th District, gives

Congressman Hal Rogers, Kentucky 5th District, gives the keynote address during the dedication ceremony for the Harlan Flood Control Project Oct. 25, 1999 in Loyall, Ky. The decade-long project managed by the U More

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District map

The Department of the Army Regulatory Program is one of the oldest programs in the federal government. Initially, the Regulatory Division (RD) served a fairly simple, straightforward purpose: to protect and mai More

Dale Hollow Lake photo of ‘town that drowned’ goes viral on Facebook

This aerial photo reveals the foundation of an old school house on the bottom of Dale Hollow Lake where the town of Willow Grove, Tenn., once stood before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District bui More

Corps of Engineers invites public to J. Percy Priest Dam's 50th Anniversary celebration

This is an aerial view of J. Percy Priest Dam under construction June 13, 1967 on the Stones River in Nashville, Tenn. The project was dedicated by President Lyndon B. Johnson June 29, 1968. The U.S. Army Corps More

New Fort Bliss Medical Center to be turned over for outfitting

The Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed construction of the new William Beaumont Army Medical Center on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and will turn over the facility for the next pha More

The Engineers at Vicksburg, Part Four: Grant's Canal

Construction (woodcut): During the naval siege of Vicksburg, Brig. Gen. Thomas Williams put his men to work with pick and shovel to excavate a canal across the base of De Soto Point, opposite Vicksburg, in a fa More

The Engineers at Vicksburg, Part 05: The Line of Defense - Map of the City’s Defenses

Map of the City’s Defenses: The line of defense around Vicksburg as designed and constructed consisted of nine major forts connected by a continuous line of rifle-pits. The line was anchored on the Mississippi More

Construction is currently under way at the La Quinta

Construction is currently under way at the La Quinta Channel Extension Project in Nueces County, Texas. Work includes deepening the channel extension and creating a beneficial use site with a scheduled completi More

The Army Engineer Spouses Club welcomed a group of

The Army Engineer Spouses Club welcomed a group of more than 30 Michigan-based "Rosie the Riveters" at Ronald Reagan International Airport in Arlington, Virginia, March 22, 2016. Now in their 80s and 90s, these More

Craig Smith, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations

Craig Smith, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations Center, dresses a fresh weld on plates securing a new tow haulage rail on Kentucky Lock wall Nov. 5, 2013. Nashville District employees completed the T More

Peyton Abernathy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville

Peyton Abernathy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District environmental engineer, assists a private consultant on the practical application of the Tennessee Stream Quantification Tool Nov. 14, 2018 at M More

Buffalo Courier-Express, Sunday August 11, 1963: “Mt.

Buffalo Courier-Express, Sunday August 11, 1963: “Mt. Morris Dam Object of C-E Tour” by Bill LaMale. Miles J. Freeman was the Mount Morris Dam's Chief Operator from its construction in 1952 until his retiremen More

The team looked at old photos to determine past paint

The team looked at old photos to determine past paint colors like this one taken in the late 1960s. This information allowed them to make decisions about colors that would best represent the building’s history

Army Corps' connection to Washington, D.C., cherry trees

Beginning in the 1880s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) transformed the unsightly Potomac Flats in the District of Columbia by dredging the river channel and dumping the spoil on the Flats, thus creati More

Nearly 70 residents of Laie attended a May 6 public

Nearly 70 residents of Laie attended a May 6 public meeting where Honolulu District civil works project managers presented information on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' proposed plan to reduce flood risk fro More

Buffalo District and partners sign Cleveland Huletts agreement

Huletts unloading ore from a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railway ore docks in Cleveland, Ohio. Image Date: May 1943. Photo Credit: Jack Delano. Courtesy Of: The Library of Congress

Flooding ^ Winter Storm - Valley City, N. D. , April 13, 2009 -- Owners of homes along the Sheyenne River sandbagged ahead of April 14 crest. These are homes where USACE could not put up clay dikes. Michael Raphael/FEMA

The original database describes this as: Title: Sand Bag Levee in a North Dakota neighborhood Production Date: 04/13/2009 Caption: Valley City, N. D. , April 13, 2009 -- Owners of homes along the Sheyenne Ri More

More than a week and half has passed and the Cape Fear

More than a week and half has passed and the Cape Fear River is just one of several major rivers that are spilling over its banks in North Carolina after hurricane Florence made landfall. The U.S. Army Corps o More

Public invited to Barkley Dam 50th Anniversary commemoration

Aerial photo of the construction at Barkley Dam in Kuttawa, Ky., taken Nov. 12, 1963. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District managed this construction project on the Cumberland River at mile 30.6. More

Bridge over Eufaula Dam to close for road repair

Twenty million dollar bridge replacement project to commence March 20 at Eufaula Dam.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District Navigation

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District Navigation Support Team replaces the crane of the tender vessel Harrell at the Great Bridge Reservation, Virginia, Feb. 27, 2019. Since the U.S. Congress first More

This is the interior of Fort Sam Houston Base Theater

This is the interior of Fort Sam Houston Base Theater in 1935.

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii (Jan. 28, 2019) -- Honolulu District

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii (Jan. 28, 2019) -- Honolulu District Regional Engineering Center (REC) Department of the Army interns Michelle Kusaka (left) and Travis Shimizu (right) verify the dimensions of the District More

Construction continues on Dam No. 4 on the Cumberland

Construction continues on Dam No. 4 on the Cumberland River in Tennessee Nov. 7, 1909. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built this old dam and lock to establish a navigation channel. The lock and dam was replac More

Public invited for Dale Hollow Dam tour on Obey River

In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Dale Hollow Dam on the Obey River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District invites the public for a free tour of Dale Hollow Dam Hydropower Plant in Celina, More

Deep Creek Bridge Replacement Project

Motorists travel over Deep Creek Bridge in Chesapeake, Virginia, which spans the Dismal Swamp Canal, Feb. 9, 2016. The city, state and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to replace the old two-lane bridge, which More

Honolulu DistrictCommander Lt. Col. James Hoyman and

Honolulu DistrictCommander Lt. Col. James Hoyman and Deputy District Commander Maj. Tom Piazze led nearly 50 District employees and family members for a sunrise hike April 6 to Makapu'u Lighthouse to celebrate More

In the background, the USS Mobjack, a motor torpedo

In the background, the USS Mobjack, a motor torpedo boat tender commissioned in the Navy from 1943 to 1946, is moored at the location of Great Bridge Lock along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Chesapeake, V More

District employees attend BIG training

Honolulu District Special Emphasis Program Committee (SEPC) members attended the Feb. 15 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Conflict Resolution Training hosted by the Pacific Ocean Chapter, Blacks in Govern More

Public invited for J. Percy Priest Dam Powerhouse tour on Stones River

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at J. Percy Priest Dam & Reservoir is offering two free guided tours of the J. Percy Priest Hydroelectric Dam in celebration of the reservoir's 50th anniversary. Dam tours will More

Native History Association President Pat Cummins (right)

Native History Association President Pat Cummins (right) leads a historic tour on Twin Forks Horse Trail near the East Fork Recreation Area in Smyrna, Tenn., May 9, 2015. The group is very close at this locatio More

The Honolulu District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The Honolulu District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander, Lt. Col. James D. Hoyman and Deputy Commander Maj. Thomas E. Piazze led about 50 Corps staff and family members for the sunrise hike April 6, 2018 c More

Model of lock showing workmen from March 31,1893.

Army Corps' connection to District of Columbia cherry trees

Beginning in the 1880s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers transformed the unsightly Potomac Flats in Washington, D.C., by dredging the river channel, dumping the spoil on the Flats, thus creating new land to the More

Hands-on historian works to share the story of Army Engineer R&D

Terry Winschel, historian for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, uses a power washer to clean off a unique prototype military vehicle designed with “tri-star” wheels. Winschel is on a missi More

Construction is ongoing at Lock 1 on the Cumberland

Construction is ongoing at Lock 1 on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 31, 1891. The view shows the stone blocks for the walls looking downstream. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville Distri More

Erma Henry-Raver holds photos of her and relatives

Erma Henry-Raver holds photos of her and relatives going to see Indian Rock Dam in 1945, as well as photo postcards from flood of 1933 in York, Pennsylvania. Henry-Raver was one of several hundred people who at More

Pomme de Terre dedication

People celebrate Oct. 29, 1961, as the outlet gates at Pomme de Terre Dam were closed for the first time. Approximately 1,700 people attended the event.

Pine Bluff Arsenal project overcomes obstacles

Members of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville’s project team package recovered chemical munitions at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas. The effort includes a 321-acre surface removal project wi More

Maintenance workers at the Hartwell Power Plant perform

Maintenance workers at the Hartwell Power Plant perform repairs on Unit 5 during a scheduled biennial inspection in June 2016. The team improves operational efficiency by rehabilitating deficient generators in- More

William DeRagon Selected as the USACE, Albuquerque District's 2018 Distinguished Retiree

Biologist William DeRagon was selected as the Albuquerque District's 2018 Distinguished Retiree.

US Army (USA) Colonel (COL) Bob Derrick, USA Corps of Engineers (USACE), Transatlantic Program Center and US Air Force (USAF) First Lieutenant (1LT) Brian Knudson, a C-130 Hercules navigator with the 772nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (EAS), study a map of Southwest Asia at a forward-deployed location, prior to flying a mission in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Cherie A. Thurlby, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Comb More

Dale Hollow Lake enlisting volunteers for shoreline cleanup

Boy Scouts pose during the National Public Lands Day Shoreline Cleanup at Dale Hollow Lake Sept. 24, 2016. (USACE photo by Sondra Carmen)

Corps of Engineers waives day-use fees for service members and families for Veterans Day

Recreators enjoy jet skiing at the J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Lake Project in Clarks Hill, S.C.

Dam breach, US Army Photo

A controlled explosion breaches a section of Embrey Dam on Feb. 23, 2004, as part of the dam's removal process. The 94 year old dam no longer served a useful purpose and was removed to help restore the environm More

US Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General (BGEN) Robert Worley, the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) Mission Support Commander, briefs the personnel of Buckley Air Force Base (AFB), during a new dorm opening ceremony, while Colonel (COL) Allen Kirkman Jr., the 460th Air Base Wing (ABW) Commander (left) and Mr. Paul Bauers, US Army (USA) Corps of Engineers (USACE) sit nearby

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Buckley Air Force Base State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Steven J. Smith, USAF Release St More

The Edward Zorinsky Federal Building under renovation,

The Edward Zorinsky Federal Building under renovation, Omaha, Nebraska Feb. 3, 2005.

US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) photograph of the Zanko substation in norther Iraq. USACE is involved in the construction and rehabilitation of over 400 electric generation, transmission, and distribution sites throughout Iraq, 50 of which are now completed. USACE manages and quality-controls the construction and rehabilitation projects, and Iraqi sub-contractors are the builders

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Zanko State: Arbil Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Camera Operator: Harry Weddington, CIV, Usace Release Stat More

Turkey - A turkey standing in the middle of a forest

A turkey wanders on a wildlife management area operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah district. (USACE photo.)

Gulf Central District (GCD) Public Affairs Officer Alicia Embrey reports on the progress of a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) managed and quality-controlled construction project in the Central District of Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Sha'Ad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE Scene Camera Operator: CIV Harry Weddingt More

Gulf Central District (GCD) Public Affairs Officer Alicia Embrey reports on the progress of a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) managed and quality-controlled construction project in the Central District of Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Sha'Ad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE Scene Camera Operator: CIV Harry Weddingt More

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) photograph by

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) photograph by ACoE photographer Jim Gordon of an electrical substation outside of Dohuk, northern Iraq. This under- construction substation has eight fedders and two 10 mva More