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The Sunken Towns Underneath The Quabbin Reservoir

Courtesy of Friends of the Quabbin
A photograph of the Swift River Hotel in Enfield, Mass., taken before the valley was flooded.

The ghostly remains of four towns can be found at the bottom of Boston’s drinking supply. The townsfolk were forced to leave in the 1930s when the state of Massachusetts flooded the area to create a reservoir. But there are many who keep alive the memory of the Swift River Valley.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.