Show TOWN TO SW IO SWALLOWED BY LAKE IJ I Mi ll h Pond of or Tn JI Acres IC v No XU i here elu I Houses Onre Stood In n time thc eastern castern portion of Lawrence coun county t Tennessee e. e i IS a it I lake alc covering eo twenty acres which has lias a history of or Interest There Thera are ore still sUI l ir living a number num- num her ber cr of old oll citizens whO remember when It t was dry lan laud land Fifty IllY years or moro mora ago a prosperous country countr village stood on the spot fot where the he Inks laks now is Tho rho town was called caled and It I was one of the time most Important Im- Im places In In that section of tho ho state staten state In n those da days s 's I Suddenly the on which the town was vas situated commenced commence to sink an and amid finally about twenty acres went down carrying ln wit It all l time the the buildings gs un unman and man many stocks of or goods were entirely lost It IL I Is said that third the tho town sank utmost almost In r a n night and that lint time the merchants didn't have time lame to remove their stocks of or goods |