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The LaVerkin Hydroelectric Power Plant, constructed in 1929 and located in La Verkin, Washington County, is locally significant under Criteria A in the area of Industry. The plant is significant for its association with the development of hydroelectric power in Washington County during the early to late twentieth century. It was the biggest power plant in a network of four plants managed by Dixie Power in the early-twentieth century and early on provided all the electricity needed for Hurricane, La Verkin, Toquerville, Virgin, Rockville, and Springdale. If all four plants were offline, it was the La Verkin facility that had to be started up first. Over the years, minor alterations were made to the plant including replacing the wood pipe penstock with metal and upgrading the electricity generating equipment to be semi-automated so that operators did not have to live on the premises. The period of significance starts in 1929, the year of construction and ends in 1972, the fifty-year cutoff for National Register purposes, though the plant continued in operation until it officially closed in 1983. Despite minor historic and non-historic alterations and loss of some integrity in materials due to deterioration from abandonment and vandalism, the plant retains the majority of its historic integrity overall in location, setting, design, workmanship, feeling and association. and remains an example of high-end type of hydroelectric plants dating from the early twentieth century in Utah.
