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**RARE CENTRAL PA HISTORY: LOCK HAVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT STUDY (1974)**
**Post-Hurricane Agnes Revitalization Plan — Clinton County, Pennsylvania**
Up for sale is an incredibly scarce, authentic original copy of the "Lock Haven" urban planning brochure prepared by the 1974 Junior Class of Landscape Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University.
This historic report was compiled in conjunction with the Clinton County Planning Commission and the Clinton County Historical Society to solve critical community design issues following the devastating impacts of Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
**HISTORICAL & ARCHITECTURAL HIGHLIGHTS INSIDE:**
* **Post-Flood Recovery History:** The introduction highlights Lock Haven's rich lumbering heritage, its geography along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, and a stark account of the 1972 Hurricane Agnes flood that caused over $30 million in property damage.
* **Exhaustive Hand-Drawn Blueprints, Renderings, & Cross-Sections:** Packed with gorgeous, highly detailed architectural site maps, street diagrams, elevation cross-sections, and design schematics. Specific visual sections include:
- "Spacial Analysis Jay Street" mapping visual cones, night-time lighting solutions, sound barriers, and the aesthetic impact of elevated roadway segments on arriving travelers.
- "Mound Study Jay Street" breaking down technical grading concepts like uninterrupted slopes, terraced slopes, and retaining wall configurations to encourage pedestrian activity.
- "Riverfront Water Street" showing beach developments, dike walls, and movable floodwalls.
- "Master Plan Water Street" detailed block layout mapping Vesper St, Grove St, and Jay St.
- "Analysis CBD" showing auto-pedestrian conflict corridors and central business district parking zones.
* **Deep Local Content:** Features full project segments covering Flood Control, Water Street Mall, Main Street Mall, Market Center, 300 Main Rehabilitation, the Industrial Park, Dunnstown U.S. Route 220, and emergency housing.
* **Genealogy & Regional Names:** The book includes a full "Participants" list noting local advisory figures (Buck Ewing, Dean Wagner, Tom Luffey, etc.) alongside the full roster of PSU student designers.
**CONDITION REPORT:**
* **Binding:** Softcover booklet is structurally sound with an intact spine and secure internal pages.
* **Covers:** Good vintage condition with crisp, bold front cover typography. The plain cream-and-brown back cover is clean and well-preserved with only minor age-appropriate storage shelf-wear.
* **Interior:** Complete and exceptionally clean. The highly stylized map foldouts, side-profile engineering studies, and hand-written typographic pages remain bright, crisp, unwritten on, and beautifully preserved.
An absolute must-have piece of Clinton County civic history. Perfect for local historians, historical architecture collectors, urban planners, or families with roots in Lock Haven! Ships flat and securely protected against bending.
