The town of Norris was not just an infrastructural project; it was also an ideological one. The TVA spent a great deal of effort, time and money on popularizing the project.
At the National Archives in Atlanta are housed a bulk of the TVA archives. Of these materials, some have been showcased here.
One artifact is a letter to the chairman of the TVA board at the time, Arthur Morgan, comparing Norris to a utopia.
Another is an essay written by a TVA employee, Tracy Augur, who wrote about the process of planning and executing Norris.
Over the course of its length, the essay extolls the virtues of Norris not just as a well-planned settlement but also as the embodiment of a particular kind of planning impulse.