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Hochatown Vanishes as Broken Bow Dam Rises Amid Reservoir Dreams
Hochatown, a southeast Oklahoma town near the Kiamichi Mountains, is flooded by the forthcoming Broken Bow Dam project. Residents move graves and buildings, many left with only foundations and relics as the 4,252-foot rock fill dam will inundate 14,200 acres by 1968, transforming the landscape and erasing much of the community.
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Prave
Jrochatown
Okla
Union
Hochatown
Mountain Fork
Gulf Plains
Oklasthe
Mississippi
Kiamichi
Alabama
U.S. Army Corps
Iick
Broken Bow
Atlantis
Usistiny
Oklahoma
Mel Curtain
Hever
Five Mile Hollow
A. C. Kincaid
Hawhatown
Kincaid