Waterways Experiment Station
Waterways Experiment Station | |
Entrance to WES (1968). | |
| Location | Roughly bounded by Spillway, Durden Creek, Tennessee Rd., and Dam Spillway, Vicksburg, Mississippi |
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| Coordinates | 32°17′50″N 90°52′10″W / 32.29722°N 90.86944°W |
| Area | 673 acres (272 ha) |
| Built | 1930 |
| Architect | US Army Corps of Engineers |
| Architectural style | WES |
| NRHP reference No. | 00001511 |
| Added to NRHP | December 13, 2000 |
The Waterways Experiment Station (WES) is a United States Army Corps of Engineers research campus in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The 673-acre (272 ha) campus hosts the headquarters of the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and four of its seven laboratories. Congress authorized the research complex in 1929 to develop flood control methods on the Mississippi River, as part of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project. Subsequent research delved into topics, including coastal engineering, dredging, weapons effects, and geotechnical engineering.
The facility was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2000 in part for its architecture. The listing was for a 16-acre (6.5 ha) area roughly bounded by Spillway, Durden Creek, Tennessee Rd., and Dam Spillway, in Vicksburg, with five contributing buildings and three contributing structures.