Our friend from out Chicago way asked if we had any pictures of the old Fultz Dam. It was built back in the days before WWII by a local gentleman. It was a commercial venture for a swimming hole that was never completed.
Not much history is available. We haven't been able to locate any historic pictures. We learned who had it built but not much else. We hope it's not a piece of Wellsville history lost. There's a lot of kids that swam there over the years.
Maybe some of our readers can help us out with some of the details and hopefully a picture or two that we can borrow. We think it would make an interesting story.
This is what it looks like today in the picture shown here.
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Never heard of it, where was it located in Wellsville ?
It's on Little Yellow Creek parallel to Rt. 45 for a bit before it heads around the bend along Hibbets Mill Rd.
It just a tad north of the Rt. 7 on-ramp off Rt. 45.
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My mom grew up in the hollow and loved it there. Never thought to ask her about that dam, always figured it was from a mill. She loved to talk about the hollow, and different spots,and folks, damn wish i would have ask her!
That's what we were referring to when we said "We hope it's not a piece of Wellsville history lost". If only those folks in Springhill Cemetery cpuld talk...
We did hear from one reader who recalled his father telling him that there was major damage done in Wellsville's worse ever flood in 1936. It was never repaired.
You figured it was a mill. We always assumed it had something to do with the City's early efforts to get better water than what they were getting out of the river back in the early 1900s. Edgar Davidson wrote that dams were built to feed water to the town's pump house. Until recently we thought it was dammed up for that. The old reservoir feeds into Little Yellow Creek. In the early days they did not have filtration plants or water treatment.
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Tones Dam
Tones Dam??? That is one we never heard of. Please tells more about it.
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