This is the back of one of the few remaining buildings that once was the NARC (North American Rayon Corporation) plant in Elizabethon. This building is large, but even it was dwarfed by the main plant building that stood between here and the highway. If you stand at the Wal-Mart, this building is situated way back by the Watauga River behind the concrete slabs that are almost all that remain of the once huge and thriving rayon plant. This particular building was the power house. Although the milk bottle shaped structures on top (retorts of some kind?) make me think that perhaps it contained more than just equipment to power the needs of the plant. NARC burned several years ago in a spectacular fire that lasted for days. There were all kinds of environmental concerns, including a fish kill in the Watauga River caused from the run-off of contaminated fire-fighting water. I'd like to know what this building actually contained in the way of power equipment, what it did and how it worked.