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Immersed Remains: Towns Submerged in America


View of the town of Neversink, obstructed by the water of the Neversink Reservoir.

Elbowoods, North Dakota; Kennett, California; Enfield, Massachusetts; Neversink, New York; Butler, Tennessee; St. Thomas, Nevada. Each of these towns represents a different element of America's development. Yet they all share the same fate: they, and hundreds of other communities like them, were vacated, demolished and flooded to make way for dams and reservoirs, for the “greater good.” Their remnants persist, however, preserved underwater, and sometimes emerge, as reminders of what was not allowed to be.

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