"Once the break is isolated and the area is excavated, Austin Water will be able to assess the repairs that are needed and ...

Those were the headlines for April 8, 1900 — as reimagined "in the style of the day" for the American-Statesman on April 8, 1976 — when the Austin Dam, which supplied the city with almost all ...

THEcomplete failure of the Austin dam, with its resultant loss of property and human life, has naturally drawn attention to the early history of this structure. The dam was constructed in the year ...