Editing Albany, Oregon (section)

===20th century===
In 1924 Pacific Power installed a turbine where the canal meets the river to generate electricity. In 1984 the city bought the water system from Pacific Power, and shut down the plant in 1991. By 2003 the city had approved a plan to restart the four megawatt-hour hydroelectric plant and in February 2009 the plant opened again.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://albanyvisitors.com/hydropower-dedication/ |title=Hydropower Dedication Ceremony and Tours |first=Diane |last=Taniguchi-Dennis |year=2009 |publisher=Albany Visitors Association |access-date=2010-07-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116061748/http://albanyvisitors.com/hydropower-dedication/ |archive-date=2010-01-16 }}</ref> Albany was the headquarters for the Mountain States Power Company from its establishment in 1918 until its merger into Pacific Power & Light (now [[PacifiCorp]]) in 1954.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

In the 1940s, the city started the [[Albany World Championship Timber Carnival]], which drew competitors from all over the world to participate in logging skills contests. The event took place over the four days of the Fourth of July weekend. Men and women would compete in climbing, chopping, bucking, and burling contests. In 2001 the carnival was cancelled because of smaller crowds and the state's declining timber economy.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/narratives/subtopic.cfm?subtopic_ID=147 | title= Education, Arts, and Letters: Cultural Enterprises | publisher= Oregon History project | access-date= 2010-07-11}}</ref>
[[File:Oregon Electric train passing through Albany, Oregon (3230126720).jpg|thumb|An [[Oregon Electric Railway]] train passing through Albany, Oregon, c. 1910s]]
In 1916 [[Kuo-Ching Li]], a Chinese-American engineer, founded [[Wah Chang Corporation|Wah Chang Trading Corporation]] in New York State, but it was based in Albany.<ref name=oregonian-1961mar>{{cite news|title=Albany Plant Official Dies [obituary of Kuo-Ching Li]|work=The Oregonian|date=March 9, 1961|page=9}}</ref> He developed it as an international [[tungsten]] ore and concentrate trading company, leading the company until his death in 1961. He served as president until 1960 and then board chairman.<ref name=oregonian-1961mar/>

The [[U.S. Bureau of Mines]] established [[Albany Research Center]] (ARC) on the former [[Albany College]] campus in 1942, focusing on the development of new metallurgical processes. First known as the Northwest Electro-development Facility, the site eventually produced titanium and zirconium, spearheaded by [[William Justin Kroll]] whom the bureau hired in 1945. The first zirconium strip was rolled out there in August 1946. In 1951, William Kroll joined the faculty of [[Oregon State College]], ten miles away in [[Corvallis, Oregon|Corvallis]].

The ARC fostered the growth of a new rare metals industry in Albany, led by internationally recognized companies such as the Oregon Metallurgical Company, Oremet, and Wah Chang.<ref name=oe1>{{cite encyclopedia | url =http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/albany | title = Albany | first = Mark | last = Spence | year = 2008 | encyclopedia = The Oregon Encyclopedia|publisher=Portland State University| access-date = 2010-07-06}}</ref> In the 1970s, Albany attempted to extend its city limits to include a zirconium processing plant of [[Wah Chang Corporation]] in order to increase its industrial tax base. Wah Chang responded in 1974 by sponsoring a vote to incorporate the desired properties as [[Millersburg, Oregon|Millersburg]].<ref name=am1>{{cite web|url=http://www.albany-millersburg.com/millersburg.htm |title=City of Millersburg |publisher=City of Millersburg |access-date=2010-07-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916023853/http://www.albany-millersburg.com/millersburg.htm |archive-date=2010-09-16 }}</ref><!--And? what was the outcome?  -->

When the Bureau of Mines closed in 1996, the ARC was transferred to the [[United States Department of Energy]]'s Office of Fossil Energy. In 2005 the facility became part of the [[National Energy Technology Laboratory]].<ref>{{cite web|title=ARC History|url=http://www.netl.doe.gov/about/netl-history/arc-history|website=National Energy Technology Laboratory|access-date=5 April 2016|archive-date=April 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419100735/http://www.netl.doe.gov/about/netl-history/arc-history|url-status=dead}}</ref>