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Curtis memories fade after dam flood of 1950s
Former Curtis residents recall a riverside community with Birchwood and White Oak cottages erased by Coralville Dam construction begun in 1949 and completed by 1952. They describe ice houses, a store, a post office, a bridge, and a spring now submerged or gone.
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Curtis
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Louvar
Iowa River
Coralville
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Amanas
Congress
Mississippi River
Curtis Land
Army Corps of Engineers
Earl Summer
Wesley Novotny
Army Corps
Novotny
Wes
Stimmel
Corps
Clifford Ziskovsky
Harry
Ziskovsky
Shueyville High School
Delco
Iowa