The Day the Dam Broke

It really did break, but the Wood's Mill pond wasn't big enough to inspire panic.

The News' account included a story handed down over the years of an earlier break and John Wood's near-death experience.


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Hobart News 22 June 1922.

(And it was a slow season at the Hobart Speedway, I gather, if the first race of the year didn't happen until July 2.)

On the original 1908 Plat Map, someone has circled in red the village of Deep River and the mill pond, which lay on the county line south of Old Lincoln Highway.


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The Gazette noted that Tony Cullman had not been operating the mill for a couple of years (after describing himself as a miller in the 1920 Census), but nevertheless he intended to rebuild the dam.


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Hobart Gazette 23 June 1922.

In the Cullman family's history of sorrows, this event was comparatively minor.

(Below that story, a complaint about loud vehicles and constant firecracker-shooting that could have been printed during any recent summer.)