The Downed Town of Marcus, Washington

ID: 4935 ~ Source: Interview with Brandon Cadwell, 8/7/2017. ~ Creator: Logan Camporeale
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National Park Service Interpreter, Brandon Cadwell, talks about one of his favorite places, the drowned town on Marcus, Washington.

This file appears in: Good Fishing on the Main Street of Marcus

By Erin Pulley
As the Grand Coulee Dam grew higher in the 1930s, the water of the Columbia River rose behind it. 150 miles of the free-flowing river was transformed into the placid Lake Roosevelt, drowning hundreds of acres of timber, farmland, Indian villages,…