Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Buckeye Cotton Oil Company. Plans, 1941-1981. 31 sheets.
Call No.
Mss. AR B ovsz.
Content
Engineering and equipment plans, most dating from the 1940s, primarily relate to an expansion of the Buckeye Cotton Oil plant at 2441 S. Floyd St. in Louisville, Ky. Buckeye Cotton Oil was a soybean processing plant and a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble of Cincinnati. Day & Zimmermann, engineers of Philadelphia, Pa. were responsible for the addition to the company's processing unit, ca. 1946, and many of the drawings relate to this project. Plans from the 1940s include process service piping plans, equipment arrangement plans, a proposed effluent neutralizing plant, and sewer line plans. Of particular interest is a 1947 plan for yard piping water and sewer (drawing C-6618-12) which includes a "new 18x10 solvent tank." In 1958, Buckeye Cotton Oil was sold to Ralston Purina. During Ralston Purina's operation of the plant, a hexane leak from the solvent tank into the sewer system resulted in the 1981 Louisville sewer explosion, which destroyed sections of Old Louisville.