DROWNED: The Forgotten Towns Beneath America's Reservoirs

Across America, roads disappear into lakes, foundations emerge during drought, and entire towns survive only in photographs and memory.DROWNED uncovers the human history beneath the nation's reservoirs-from St. Thomas and American Falls to Kinzua, Kettle Falls, Fort Berthold, Butler, Monticello, and other communities transformed or erased by public works.Drawing from government records, archival photographs, oral histories, treaty records, and contemporary reporting, M. H. Farrow follows the families, Native nations, businesses, churches, and cemeteries forced to make room.These projects supplied water, generated electricity, controlled floods, supported agriculture, and created new recreational landscapes. They also concentrated enormous costs on people whose homes stood in the way.This is not simply a history of lost towns. It is the story of what America gained, what its communities surrendered, and how people carried their history forward after the water rose.Part of the American Echoes series-recovering the true stories that shaped our nation.