A good question. One asked and answered in a recent article by The Buffalo Reflex – because of dams built on the rivers that created lakes that swallowed the townsite. It’s as simple and complex and painful to those forced to move as that.
View of Bagnell Dam under construction
This first installment tells the story of Linn Creek on the Osage River, which we covered extensively in Damming the Osage.
The next installment will cover the move of Forsyth from the mouth of Swan Creek on the White River to a high bluff above what became the upper reaches of Bull Shoals Reservoir.
On our Damming the Osage blog, we posted a number of entries on Linn Creek. Here are just a few:
Steamboat’s A-comin’! The Ruth at Linn Creek
Old Linn Creek 1909 – before Bagnell Dam
Old Linn Creek – flooded by the Osage
Steamboat landing in Linn Creek, 1911
Damming the Osage: The Conflicted Story of Lake of the Ozarks and Truman Reservoir is available on this website, amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble.