Dammed If You Don't: The Palmertown Tragedy of 1924 in Collective Memory
On December 24, 1924, a wall of water and alkali muck engulfed Palmertown, a small community in Saltville, Virginia. Houses were swept away and by the time all of the bodies were pulled from the wreckage, the death toll had reached 19-an immense loss for the tight-knit community. A dam, owned by Mat...
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Virginia Tech
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71450 |