PENNYCUICK MUSEUM

Colonel John Pennycuick CSI was a British Army engineer and civil servant who served as a member of Madras Legislative Council when parts of the Indian subcontinent were under Colonial rule of the British East India Company.

He designed and built the mighty Malliperiar dam and deserves this fitting museum at Lowercamp in Tamil Nadu as building the dam was no easy task.

Construction was slow battling against the jungle animals, biting insects and relentless rain. After a bad flood and the government putting the squeeze on the budget he traveled to England and sold his property along with Mrs Pennycuick's jewels and raised the money to finish the project that was completed in 1895.