The basis of this project was sticking a piece of historic propaganda discouraging the Tuttle Creek Reservoir from being built around an area that was most affected by the inevitable dam.
Randolph was one of four cities that were actually submerged by the resulting lake waters that welled up due to the Tuttle Creek Dam in 1962. "Old Randolph", ruins of the town that still stand half-way submerged near the northern part of the lake, can still be seen to this day. It was a politically charged debate that spanded over a decade and even though the slogan "Let's Quit this Dam Foolishness" won Howard Shultz Miller a position in the U.S. House of Representitives in 1952, it did not stop the dam from being built. While the value of the dam was proven during the Flood of 1993, the original flood waters that were caused *by* the dam aren't generally addressed.
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