Title: Lost Towns of the Quabbin Reservoir - New England Today
Headings: Lost Towns of the Quabbin Reservoir
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Lost Towns of the Quabbin Reservoir
The lost towns of the Quabbin Reservoir aren't your typical ghost towns. Read about why they were abandoned, and how they came to be under water.
Lost Towns of the Quabbin Reservoir
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Content: As if that weren’t enough, they would also have to exhume and relocate 7,613 bodies from local cemeteries. Surely there was a better solution. The roads of the lost towns of the Quabbin Reservoir remain paved, just as they were in 1938. Many of them now lead straight into the water. Bethany Bourgault
The Swift River Act legalized the impossible, though, and after its passage in 1927, residents of the valley faced a hard deadline. They had until April 27, 1938 to pick up and move their entire livelihoods elsewhere, aided by a governmental allowance of $108 per acre lost. That night, a ball was held in the town of Enfield to give the residents one last night together as a community. Those who were unable to get tickets danced to the music on the Town Hall’s lawn — no one was going to miss this event. When the clock struck midnight on April 28, the towns were legally no more. The flooding began several months later.