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Photograph. Black and white photo showing an aerial view of the Detroit Edison Monroe electric power plant. The foreground view shows coal piles, coal conveyors, two large smokestacks, parking/storage areas, an existing power plant building, and a new building addition under construction. A portion of the Lake Erie shoreline can be seen in the left background area of the photo. Open fields, roads, houses, and buildings can be seen in the distant background. A typewritten note on the verso shows "DE Photo 695-1295. Detroit Edison's Monroe Power Plant, where the first of four large generating units was dedicated Monday, March 15, is being built on a 1200-acre site fronting Lake Erie just south of the Monroe, Michigan, ship channel. The plant, estimated at a cost of more than $550 million and scheduled for completion in 1973, will be the largest generating station of its kind in the world when all four 800,000 kilowatt units are in operation. From: Public Information Department, The Detroit Edison Company, 2000 Second Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48226; (313) 962-2100, Ext. 3057, 3693" and "For use after Noon, Monday, March 15, 1971."