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[STORMREPORTS] Drought: Lost city reappears as lake levels drop

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 19:32:00 EDT

(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/90602_sn_lostcity.html

"(9/6/02 - ELBERTON, Ga.) — As the lake's water levels recede to
near-record lows, the remains of what was once Georgia's second-largest
city are making a rare appearance and offering a glimpse of a ghostly past.
It doesn't look like much. Most of the city's ruins still lie beneath the
lake's murky waters, which have sunk more than 14 feet, exposing old
roadbeds, fence lines and brick foundations. Petersburg was founded as a
tobacco town in the late 1700s and peaked in 1809, when 45,000 people lived
in the Broad River Valley. But then the economy dried up and the settlement
dwindled as quickly as it had grown.
The town was buried in a watery grave 50 years ago, when the Army Corps of
Engineers flooded 72,000 acres to build Thurmond Lake." 

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