Lost Towns Of The Swift River Valley Drowned By The Quabbin

Author : Elena Palladino
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147972

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Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin by Elena Palladino Pdf

In April 1938, Swift River Valley residents held a farewell ball to mark the demise of the quintessential New England town of Enfield and its three smaller neighbors, Greenwich, Dana, and Prescott. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts sacrificed these three towns to build the Quabbin, a massive reservoir of drinking water for residents of Boston. Three prominent residents attended the somber occasion. Marion Andrews Smith was the last surviving member of an important manufacturing family. Willard "Doc" Segur was the valley's beloved country doctor and town leader. And Edwin Henry Howe was Enfield's postmaster and general store proprietor. They helped build their beloved community for decades, only to watch grief-stricken as it was destroyed by 400 billion gallons of water. Author and historian Elena Palladino recounts the story of these communities as seen through eyes of those who lived there until the end.

Author : Elisabeth C. Rosenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643136455

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Before the Flood by Elisabeth C. Rosenberg Pdf

In the tradition of Silent Spring, a modern parable of the American experience and our paradoxical relationship with the natural world. Though it seems a part of the "natural" landscape of New England today, the Swift River Valley reservoir, dam, dike, and nature area was a triumph of civil engineering. It combined forward-looking environmental stewardship and social policy, yet the “little people”—and the four towns in which they lived—got lost along the way. Elisabeth Rosenberg has crafted Before the Flood to be both a modern and a universal story in a time when managed retreat will one day be a reality. Meticulously researched, Before the Flood, is the first narrative book on the incredible history of the Swift River Valley and the origins Quabbin Reservoir. Rosenberg dive into the socioeconomic and psychological aspects of the Swift River Valley’s destruction in order to supply drinking water for the growing populations of Boston and wider Massachusetts. It is as much a human story as the story of water and landscape, and Before the Flood movingly reveals both the stories and the science of the key players and the four flooded towns that were washed forever away.

Author : Elizabeth Peirce
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0738512192

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The Lost Towns of the Quabbin Valley by Elizabeth Peirce Pdf

The Quabbin Reservoir, in central Massachusetts, was created in 1938 to supply the state's growing population with a source of drinking water. More than two thousand people were displaced when the Quabbin Valley was flooded. Three branches of the Swift River were dammed, and five towns-Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, Prescott, and parts of New Salem-were covered with water. The Lost Towns of the Quabbin Valley highlights the life and times of these towns from 1754 to 1938, when the inhabitants were told, "All Must Leave." The architectural landscape of the Quabbin Valley at one time included the churches, cemeteries, schoolhouses, post offices, homes, and businesses that made the thriving communities. The Lost Towns of the Quabbin Valley presents rare photographs of town life, including images of students at the first Hillside School and Dr. Mary Walker, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and Greenwich summer resident. The images are drawn from the archives of the Swift River Valley Historical Society. Although the towns are gone, their stories are alive and well.

Author : Elizabeth Peirce
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738545546

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Quabbin Valley: People and Places by Elizabeth Peirce Pdf

A collection of vintage photographs and an informative text provide a nostalgic look at the Quabbin Valley, from 1750 to 1938, documenting the everyday lives of the inhabitants of Dana, Enfield, Prescott, Greenwich, and their environs, until they were displaced when the region was flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Original.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Quabbin Reservoir (Mass.)
ISBN : WISC:89067289397

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Quabbin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dorothy Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1884540333

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A Swift River Anthology by Dorothy Johnson Pdf

From their graves in Quabbin Park Cemetery, imagined residents... of the former towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, Massachusetts, reminisce about their lives in the Lost Valley before their towns were flooded to create a drinking water reservoir for the city of Boston. "In a remarkable feat of literary clairvoyance, Dorothy Johnson brings us the voices of the dead from the drowned Swift River Valley, conjuring up their lives and their vanished world-in epitaphs so vivid and so laconically graceful that for a moment each speaker stands before us, startling and true," says freelance journalist Anna Mundow. This is the author's homage to A Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. Illustrations and cover design by C. V. Smith.

Author : Jacqueline T. Lynch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1478382651

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Beside the Still Waters by Jacqueline T. Lynch Pdf

Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, Prescott-- four towns are dismantled slowly while their inhabitants grieve for a history and heritage that has been voted away from them. A family saga based on an actual event which displaced four entire towns in central Massachusetts for the construction of a reservoir to supply water for Boston, where families are divided between those who protest the construction project, those who give up and leave, and those who help to build it.

Author : Taryn Plumb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684750177

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Ghost Towns of New England by Taryn Plumb Pdf

People are inexplicably drawn to abandoned places. Believe it or not, New England is home to numerous ghost towns long abandoned, but filled with mystery, unexpected beauty, and a sense that these locations are simply biding their time, waiting for people to return. Taryn Plumb explores dozens of locations in the region, revealing the surprising histories of the towns and the reasons they were abandoned. In Maine, sites include Flagstaff, whose citizens were forced out to make way for a dam and which now sits at the bottom of Flagstaff Lake; Riceville, wiped out by cholera; and Perkins Township, which was abandoned so suddenly the remaining houses are still filled with furnishings. Locations in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut are also covered in this unique and fascinating tour.

Author : Donald W. Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0832826162

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Quabbin! the Lost Valley by Donald W. Howe Pdf

Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781440672828

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Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner Pdf

“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316968609

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Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen Pdf

Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015043362279

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Book Links by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen R. Haddad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Boys
ISBN : 1937146561

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The Taking by Helen R. Haddad Pdf

A window into the 1920s, this novel opens when young Josiah loses his parents and has to leave the city of Boston, moving to rural western Massachusetts. There, he struggles to adapt to life on his aunt and uncle's farm and to adjust to a one-room school, where he meets Addy, who becomes a friend, and Alvin, the school bully. As his sense of belonging slowly grows, so does his realization that the Swift RiverValley, where he now lives, may be destroyed to create an enormous reservoir to supply water to Boston. The largely untold story of life in the towns flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir is presented as a backdrop to Josiah's story, as is a picture of traditional New England farming through the seasons.

Author : Richard William Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 1625341016

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Second Nature by Richard William Judd Pdf

8. Conserving Urban Ecologies -- 9. Saving Second Nature -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover

Author : Joseph E. Coduri,Committee for a New England Bibliography
Publisher : Hanover, NH : University Press of New England
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024598588

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New England by Joseph E. Coduri,Committee for a New England Bibliography Pdf