Old Timer remembers dam construction

In November of 1934, Nuckolls County newspapers reported workers associated with the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp located on the Nuckolls County Fairgrounds were building a dam on the Paul Huskinson farm northwest of the Ideal Cement Company plant.

The new dam was on the site of a previous dam built sometime before 1885 on what was then part of the Superior Cattle Company ranch.

A faulty spillway was blamed for the original dam washing out during the heavy rains of 1915. The new dam was to have an improved concrete spillway.

The original dam was probably part of the cattle company’s touris...

 

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