Old foundations near Austin Dam

[deepskyal]

Here are some pics you guys may want to explore.
The first pic, where I'm showing a foundation down the road, to the left of the phone pole is a stone chimney and fireplace standing alone. For some reason, I took a pic and it never made it into the camera.

This road is the park road leading down to the base of the dam itself.
Also, there are numerious foot trails made by people along the road.
In the old panorama that I'm posting, there were a couple houses in the area unaffected by the flood but are long gone.

If you figure how badly the area was stripped of lumber by the so called "lumber hicks", there had to have been lumber camps somewhere nearby.
Use you imagination...a couple flat areas ....maybe once a house sat? A good place for a camp when they built the dam?

Also...above the large concrete dam, there was a smaller earthen dam which I got pics of.

 

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[lumbercamp]

The earthen dam preceded the concrete dam. It was too small to supply enough water for the Bayless Paper Mill, so the large concrete dam was built.
Several years ago while I was at the dam some men had a backhole and were digging at the base of the dam. I asked what they were doing and they said that maybe the dam had been built on clay and it had shifted because of that. I never did hear what the results of the testing were.