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Name:	tanasi -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	5/4/2005 9:26:25 PM

I have requested a forum from the host to continue the search for the so called sunken town in Lake Martin... Since I live in TN is difficult to come there ands search..but many of you have sent me maps and emails and posts on the general site towards this search... Hopefully together we can find it...

Bob

Kinda like loch ness??

Name:	MotorMan -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	5/4/2005 10:45:29 PM

Good Kuck. Put your diver down flags up high. At 70mph some jet-sliis may not see you. can't help on city

Name:	SBsigmapi -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	5/5/2005 11:27:31 AM

Good luck on your search. I will give you this bit of encouraging news. I was chatting with a guy at Chuck's one night that was from Georgia. He had been diving that day and told me that he had found a mailbox still standing that actually had mail in it. He said that it was the writing was illegible. I did not ask where on the lake he was diving, but he talked like it was a full sunken town. Obviously this is heresay, but it should still be encouraging to hear.

Name:	F1Fan -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	5/10/2005 3:31:36 PM

<<Obviously this is heresay, but it should still be encouraging to hear.>>

More importantly, heresay at a bar!

Name:	SBsigmapi -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	5/10/2005 4:14:26 PM

Wow, that was a helpful post!

Name:	tanasi -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	5/13/2005 7:41:53 PM

You would think someone would know this if it is there.... I am anxious to find out the truth about the Lake Martin Atlantis

Bob

Name:	LifeTime Laker -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	6/6/2005 9:03:57 AM

Sorry to dissapoint you, but the lake bed was clear cut prior to filling. The engineers wanted no obstructions. Some buildings, most remarkable a church, were left standing, but they are in DEEP water. When the lake was built the engineers figured on a drawdown each year, and planned for a fluctuation of as much as 50 feet. I was shocked when I read this. A 50 foot drawdown would nearly empty most of the creeks . What timber was not needed in the dam construction, or was to far away from the dam to be economically feasible was usually piled and burned, although in some cases if the depth was sufficient, it was bundled with chains and left on the lake bottom.

Bottom line is there are a few structures, but their location is no mystery. Their location is clearly marked on most all variations of lake maps I have seen and used. The other downside is that most of them are on the east side of the lake, with a high concentration in the Young's Ferry area. There is an old bridge structure in this area also. But as we know, the east side of lake is not as clear and therefor not as conducive to diving.

Good luck.

and BTW.... my info comes from reading several books on the construction of not only Lake Martin but several others also.

Name:	bootyrunner -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	6/16/2005 10:37:45 PM

i have seen several topo maps of the area under lake martin before the lake was built .they are located in the 1st floor of auburn university library in the archives section.

there are 3 little communities/towns that were covered with water when the lake was built. no telling how many indian villiages.

one evening after leaving chuck's with pizza idling toward dead timbers, i observed in my depth machine some obvious obstructions on the screen. i circled around and marked them again on the machine. satisfied i had found "susanna" i left. i have never been able to find it again.

sorry, no GPS at that time. it was about 60 feet deep. i don't know about you but 60 feet in a freshwater lake is both too cold and dark to enjoy diving. 40-45 is about my limit in lake martin.

by the way, this is right in line with the traffic up and down chuck's marina slough, only maybe a little to the south.

Name:	edpnjax -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	7/5/2005 3:25:53 PM

Found this at: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/specialreports/communities/lakefacts.htm

LAKE MARTIN

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Covers nearly 41,000 acres with 700 miles of shoreline
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At the time it was finished, it was the largest manmade body of water in the world
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Martin Dam was completed in 1926 at Cherokee Bluffs on the Tallapoosa River
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The dam was named in honor of Thomas Martin, president of Alabama Power from 1920 to 1949 and CEO from 1949 to 1963
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More than 8,000 men worked on the dam for three years, and nine men were killed during its construction
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The dam construction site was home to a small town that included camps for the workers, a hospital, barbershops, bathhouses and mess halls
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All the timber in the 41,000 acres was either harvested using cross-cut saws and axes, burned, or cabled onto the ground to keep it from floating into the power generator intakes
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Two towns, Benson and Susannah, were flooded by the lake. Benson was a black community that surrounded the Kowaliga Academic and Industrial Institute, which had been established in 1895 by Will Benson. Susannah boasted two general stores, a grist mill, a flour mill, a sawmill, an active gold mine, a blacksmith shop, a school and a Methodist church.
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More than 900 graves were moved before the lake area was flooded

SOUNDS ON THE LAKE

There are a couple of stories that have been passed down through the years about sounds that can be heard in Lake Martin. Not "on" Lake Martin, mind you, but "in" Lake Martin.

The first holds that in the move to vacate the area to be flooded for the lake, a church was left standing with its bell still in the steeple. Supposedly, the water's current can move the bell, making it ring. You can supposedly hear it underwater.

The other tale also involves sticking your head in the water. This time, though, you will hear a pack of coon dogs baying as they chase their quarry along the submerged hills and hollows of the lake bottom. The story goes that an old man who raised top-quality coon dogs was bought out when the lake was built. However, he passed away before he could move. Before he died, though, he begged his wife to move the graves of 18 coon dogs buried behind his house. Despite her husband's pleas, she didn't move the dogs' graves, leaving them to haunt their underwater hunting grounds.

Name:	SBsigmapi -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	7/13/2005 5:23:29 PM

From reading this email, it sounds like my druken buddy at Chuck's may have been telling the truth. It sure would be neat to see.

Name:	GhostFleet -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	9/14/2007 10:16:23 AM

It's probably true because I was diving near Irma and found a well with water still in it at 52 feet.

Name:	jrh3 -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	9/15/2007 5:47:29 PM

that well will soon be dry............................................

Name:	CC_Diver -	Reply
Subject:	sunken City
Date:	11/8/2007 9:16:11 PM

wait...what do you mean by the well still had water in it? wouldn't have water in just because it's under the lake....

Name:	scottroberts -	Reply
Subject:	lost city of Susanna
Date:	11/20/2007 12:26:57 AM

Susanna is on my lake map. If you're leaving chuck's marina, make a straight shot for the tip of the peninsula on your left (centerport rd) after which you need to turn left to get back to the middle of the lake. It's exactly 1 mile on your way, 1/3 of a mile before the tip of the point, 500 feet east from shore. This is above the susanna crossroad in the 1909 topo map that shows 4 buildings (dots, anyway). In a 1 mile radius, the topo shows about 20 other buildings, 7 of which are above lake level on 2 different peninsulas. There was a chuch in the slough on the other side of the peninsula.

As a double-check for position, the peninsula on your right ends before you get to it.

Lattitude: 32.739 +/-0.001
longitude: -85.845 +/- 0.002
NW quarter of Section 10, T20N, R22E, if someone wants to go to the county courthouse to get names :)

There is a Susanna Point Rd that comes off Centerport Rd towards Susanna crossroad, and there are 2 dots just offshore (exposed now?) but it's 2000 feet south of the crossroad itself.

URL: Univ of AL Historical Tallapoosa Maps

Name:	DroughtBuster -	Reply
Subject:	lost city of Susanna
Date:	6/11/2008 8:12:01 PM

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Subject:	lost city of Susanna
Date:	6/11/2008 8:12:14 PM

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Subject:	lost city of Susanna
Date:	6/11/2008 8:12:28 PM

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Subject:	lost city of Susanna
Date:	6/11/2008 8:12:34 PM

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Subject:	sunken City
Date:	6/11/2008 8:12:48 PM

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Subject:	sunken City
Date:	6/11/2008 8:13:02 PM

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