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Austin Dam ruins. The victims of the dam break are commemorated in the Austin Dam Memorial Park. [4] The remains of the failed first dam still stand. [4] The ruins consist of a series of broken sections extending east-west across the Freeman Run Valley - five upright sections and two large and several smaller toppled sections. [5]
Austin Dam ruins. The Austin Dam, also known as the Bayless Dam, was a concrete gravity dam for the Bayless Pulp and Paper Mill. Built in 1909, it was the largest dam of its type in Pennsylvania at the time. The catastrophic failure of the dam on September 30, 1911, destroyed much of the town and killed 78 people.
The Austin Dam failure, also referred to as "The Great Granite Dam" failure, was a catastrophic dam failure near Austin, Texas that killed several dozen people in 1900. The destruction of the dam drained the Lake McDonald reservoir and left the city of Austin without electrical power for a number of months.
Emergency services in Austin-Travis County in Texas rescued four people from a boat that was left hanging over a dam on June 10.The boat ended up stranded and dangling precariously over Longhorn ...
The ruins of the McKinney Homestead in 2007. Location: SW of Austin between TX 71 and U.S. 183: Nearest city: Austin, Texas, USA: Coordinates
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Tom Miller Dam is a dam located on the Colorado River within the city limits of Austin, Texas, United States. The City of Austin, aided by funds from the Public Works Administration , constructed the dam for the purpose of flood control and for generating hydroelectric power .
As Austin Shakespeare prepares to present 'O. Henry Stories,' a look at life as it was lived when the author was here in the late 1800s.