Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sexes worked on the dam itself, and the girls scorned dishwashing and floor-scrubbing as much as the boys. However, they all took shifts and spent at least part of their time doing the disagreeable tasks...
...Dam Had Predecessor...
...floods of 1927, the original dam was washed away, and it has been unrepaired for 14 years. A large artificial pond, which provided bathing and boating facilities as well as farm irrigation, disappeared with the dam...
...town of Grafton Center was naturally pleased with PBH's offer to establish a work camp there, for the restoration of the dam and pond would mean increased real estate and perhaps industrial, business there, on a small scale at least. The town fathers there fore appropriated $1200 to pay for the cost of material. The remaining costs of the project, totalling a little less than $1000, were taken care of by PBH! American Defense, Harvard Group, and the participating students themselves...
...dam itself is nine feet high and 35 feet long. The major portion is constructed of stone, but a concrete facing gives the dam a smooth surface. When the students left the project at the end of the summer, the concrete facing was not quite finished, but is being completed by local workmen...