# Looking for pic of a town or part of town under water **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 18, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913 "2004-09-18T22:56:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/21 "2004-09-19T22:55:28Z")
Another one is the Australian town of Old Adaminaby, abandoned to the waters when they constructed the dam to make Lake Eucumbene a few decades ago. I have been unable to find images on Google though. Any photos out there would probably be old (how long do buildings last underwater anyway?). ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/22 "2004-09-19T23:25:34Z")
South Cape May, New Jersey has been submerged by erosion and flooding. It’s dificult finding a good cite. But, the homes would have been Victorian and a few sources describe them as looking like gingerbread houses. ---
**Author:** ![DefyingGravity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@DefyingGravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DefyingGravity)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/23 "2004-09-19T23:41:14Z")
This takes a long time to load, but had some interesting pictures, including a road leading down into the water. [http://www.qsl.net/xq2fod/photo/stories/gualliguaica/gualliguaica.html](http://www.qsl.net/xq2fod/photo/stories/gualliguaica/gualliguaica.html) Karen ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/24 "2004-09-20T01:26:30Z")
Cool site **karenow** , I had stumbled on it before with my searches. That’s not the pic I’m looking for, but there’s interesting stuff there. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/25 "2004-09-20T15:34:12Z")
What are the feasibility and safety issues regarding exploring these submerged towns with scuba gear? ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/26 "2004-09-20T17:22:56Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Apparently that particular town was called Heroult. > > And [here](http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/our_town.php) are a few other leads: > > > [@](#): > > > > Countless North American towns have been submerged to make way for dams and the reservoirs they create. Four communities in Massachusetts – Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott – were consumed by the Swift River to improve the Eastern Massachusetts water supply. Given your location, it’s unlikely that you’d know this, but there isn’t anything to see under the Quabbin Reservoir. The four “Quabbin Towns” that your source lists were levelled during the construction phase. Everything that could be removed was. All the trees in the new lake’s footprint were cut down, and every building was taken down to its foundations. All that’s left is some broken macadam roads and stone-lined holes in the lake floor. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/27 "2004-09-20T18:31:19Z")
Didn’t the Chinese do the same thing when they dammed the Yellow River? I saw something on tv about the project, and it mentioned that they were tearing down the towns that were going to be submerged. That way, they wouldn’t have to worry about ships hitting submerged buildings. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/28 "2004-09-21T13:58:16Z")
That’s mentioned in this PDF [http://www.jaustinphoto.com/china/Three\_Gorges\_Layout.pdf](http://www.jaustinphoto.com/china/Three_Gorges_Layout.pdf) (page 3) ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913/29 "2004-09-21T16:37:37Z")
You don’t know at all where it might have been, like any particular state or anything? It may have also been a picture of Quake Lake in Montana, near Yellowstone. [This site](http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/1959_08_18_pics.html) has three pages of pictures from the earthquake that created Quake Lake, one of which on page 1 shows a road going right into the lake. There’s also a picture on page 2 that shows a house semi-submerged. I visited Quake Lake when I was 15, and it was very eerie. I believe you could still see some of the road going underwater, and several houses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-pic-of-a-town-or-part-of-town-under-water/264913.md?page=1)