Talk:Kinzua Dam

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The story on the Kinzua Dam doesn't mention the town of Kinzua, which was displaced and was located just above where the dam is now in the Kinzua valley. It was a beautiful little Pennsylvania town and my Father has hundreds of slides taken before the dam was built and while it was being built. The entry does mention the Seneca Indian tribe and the Olmstead boyscout camp. But seems the residents of Kinzua, Pa. should be acknowledged in this entry, or have an entry of it's own. All residents were forced and bought out by the federal government which used eminent domain powers to claim all of the property. Some had their homes moved out but most homes, stores, church etc. were demolished. My Grandparents lived in a small rural area near the Sugar Run creek which now flows into one of the resevoir's largest bays, Sugar Bay. It is approximately 5 miles from what was the town of Kinzua proper. The government originally only took land up to the 1365 mark of elevation and my Grandparents owned a decent amount of land above that mark. However, the forestry service later claimed that land as well and, to add insult to injury, my Grandmother's payment was appealed and she ended up with 40,000.00 dollars for nearly 200 acres. Around 200 dollars an acre for some extremely prime Pennsylvania land, now bordering the resevoir with some of it under water when the lake level is high, but none of the land above 1365 of course. That is now part of the Allegheny National Forest. Ironically there is still many spots of privately held land scattered all through the inner areas of the Allegheny National Forest. My Grandmother and an Uncle lived out their lives in a modest trailer several miles from their Sugar Run home in Marshburg Pennsylvania. (Moved from main page to the talk page) Shanafme 16:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * With all due respect, Shanafme, please feel free to create a page for Kinzua. Please click on Kinza, Pennsylvania and enter as much text as you can. You can use San_Jose%2C_California as an example of how to proceed for properly formatting city/town/etc pages; or you email me or leave me a note on my talk page and I will help you format the page properly. REMEMBER! NPOV is very important to the Wikipedia community. You should check out Policies_and_guidelines and related pages to get a head start on the philosophy and DOs and DoNots. It sounds complicated but it really isn't. I'm living proof of that, eh? :-) JimScott 15:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * JimScott - I didn't write the blurb about Kinzua, I removed it from the main page about the Kinzua Dam. The text I added is in the parenthesis.  However, I think your idea is good and hopefully the original author will consider doing that.  Shanafme 19:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Photos
I have some pretty good photos around somewhere, I will scan them and add them. I concur that Kinzua, Pennsylvania needs an article. I will add it to my to-do list. IvoShandor 07:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

found a very informative source
I don't have time to do much editing but will leave on talk page for future reference. By ALVIN M. JOSEPHY, JR., Cornplanter, can you swim, American Heritage Magazine Ward20 (talk) 18:57, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Were any Seneca actually living there?
"the population dwindled as residents moved to the adjacent, larger, and related Allegany Reservation of New York. Residence became largely seasonal and in late 1964 the last inhabitant left, permitting Kinzua Dam to be closed and the reservoir to be flooded. " http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/people/4277/chief_cornplanter/443542 Ywaz (talk) 15:38, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Add "References In Popular Culture"?
Hi, this is my first Wikipedia edit, sorry for any protocol violations.

I'm suggesting a new "References In Popular Culture" section for the Kinzua Dam article. In reality I only know of a single one: the song "Now That The Buffalo's Gone" by Buffy Sainte-Marie. The Wikipedia article for the song actually mentions Kinzua Dam, but there's no link to the article. That should probably be updated as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That_the_Buffalo%27s_Gone

Thoughts?

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Kinzua Dam "will never hold water"
I have people who live(d) near the dam and locals who spoke to Tribes people there. One of the "prophecies" was that the dam would never hold water properly' I recall folks talking about the government pouring hundreds of tons of concrete to stop leaks. Did they ever stop the leaking? Does anyone know the true story? Raeboo8090 (talk) 18:35, 18 July 2024 (UTC)