Saville Dam and Barkhamsted Reservoir
Historic site · Barkhamsted, Connecticut
A stone-and-earth dam named for MDC chief engineer Caleb Mills Saville, completed in 1940 to impound a 30-billion-gallon reservoir; water first flowed to Hartford on December 21, 1944. Flooding Barkhamsted Hollow displaced roughly 1,000 residents. Watershed land — a scenic drive-by and walking stop, not for swimming or boating.
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Route 318, Barkhamsted, CT 06063
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Photo "Saville Dam gatehouse": Conrad Ward, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo "Barkhamsted Reservoir": Morrowlong, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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