American Echoes
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.
M. H. Farrow follows the families, Native nations, businesses, churches, and cemeteries forced to make room for reservoirs and the public works that created them.
What the water could not erase
What America gained—and who paid for it.
From St. Thomas and American Falls to Kinzua, Kettle Falls, Fort Berthold, Butler, Monticello, and other communities, DROWNED examines the places transformed or erased by public works.
Drawing from government records, archival photographs, oral histories, treaty records, and contemporary reporting, the book documents both the benefits these projects created and the enormous costs concentrated on people whose homes stood in the way.
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