Comments – More on the Pics

Here we have some more discussion of the Calendar Pictures

April      Gaysville  – on the White River Railroad

From Julia Purdy:  The notable thing about the 1927 flood in Gaysville is that it literally swept the entire village (which you see in the photo, pre-flood) off the map. What you see now in Gaysville is a ruined power station, exposed bedrock, and the remains of the power dam, which is now used to reach the post office and the hillside beyond. I’ve studied a bit on this and geologists determined that the village had been built on relatively loose material, deposited by the river in some ancient period, which dammed it and forced it over to the other side of the huge outcrop of ledge in the middle, where the dam and power station were subsequently built, thinking this was “the” river. However, in 1927 the river apparently sought its ancestral bed and leaped over the ledge and scoured out the village: houses, shops, barns, and all. So what you see in Gaysville is the remains of an apocalyptic flood and the channel it opened up.

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