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1933 - Winter Pond Flooding
According to local family lore, this flood was caused when the cottages at Lantern Lane were built. Apparently they were built in a wetland during a dry year, and the next year the new cottages started to flood. So those new homeowners took it upon themselves to build a dam up at Winter Pond to keep the water away from them. This of course resulted in flooding upstream.
According to local family lore, this flood was caused when the cottages at Lantern Lane were built. Apparently they were built in a wetland during a dry year, and the next year the new cottages started to flood. So those new homeowners took it upon themselves to build a dam up at Winter Pond to keep the water away from them. This of course resulted in flooding upstream.
My grandfather, Brad Hersey, who had built a pondside cottage for his Mother on Winter pond, was not happy with this dam causing flooding on is property so he had the dam dismantled. The Lantern Lane folks promptly rebuilt it, my grandfather demolished it, and on and on until my grandfather eventually hired an armed guard to prevent the dam from being rebuilt. As a result of this dispute, the town apparently decided that the stream between Winter Pond and Wedge Pond would need to be diverted to an underground culvert. This culvert will start to flow at precisely the level where water would start to cause damage to my great grandmother's cottage. At the same time my grandfather had a retaining wall built to protect the Winter Pond cottage from further flood damage.
My grandfather, Brad Hersey, who had built a pondside cottage for his Mother on Winter pond, was not happy with this dam causing flooding on is property so he had the dam dismantled. The Lantern Lane folks promptly rebuilt it, my grandfather demolished it, and on and on until my grandfather eventually hired an armed guard to prevent the dam from being rebuilt. As a result of this dispute, the town apparently decided that the stream between Winter Pond and Wedge Pond would need to be diverted to an underground culvert. This culvert will start to flow at precisely the level where water would start to cause damage to my great grandmother's cottage. At the same time my grandfather had a retaining wall built to protect the Winter Pond cottage from further flood damage.
- Caroline Woodward
- Caroline Woodward
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