Towns Buried Under Lakes

Somewhere under your favorite lake, there's a main street. America spent the twentieth century drowning its own towns — for drinking water, for power, for progress. This is the story of four of them: Quabbin under Boston's water supply, St. Thomas resurfacing in Lake Mead, Oscarville and the price of Lake Lanier, and Butler, drowned twice by the TVA. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Somewhere Under Your Favorite Lake 0:28 The Dam-Building Era 1:14 Quabbin — Boston's Drinking Water 2:30 St. Thomas — The Town That Came Back 3:29 Oscarville — The Price of Lake Lanier 4:38 Butler — Drowned Twice 5:40 What the Water Gives Back 6:21 The Price of Progress 6:53 Every Map Has a Past Every map has a past. #DrownedTowns #LostCities #AmericanHistory #Geography #Maps #AtlasRewound #Quabbin #LakeMead #LakeLanier