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?).
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.
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
Karen
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.
What are the feasibility and safety issues regarding exploring these submerged towns with scuba gear?
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.
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.
That’s mentioned in this PDF
http://www.jaustinphoto.com/china/Three_Gorges_Layout.pdf
(page 3)
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 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.