Did you all know that Taylorsville was born in a flood? Back when it was first made and they closed the dam they tought it would take about 18 months to fill it up. However, it flooded that year and the lake filled up in a matter of a couple of weeks. We were very anxious to get out on the lake. A friend and I took his boat up to the Van Buren Ramp. The road to the water just deadended in water and the ramp and the parking lot were under. We just turned around and used the road as a ramp. We went out and were the only boat on the water just exploring the lake. Then the motor quit. We paddled over to another old roadway on the side of the lake. Tied the boat to a gaurdrail and hitched back to the truck. By then it was late to we went home thinking we would get the boat in the morning. We got back around noon and the lake had already dropped 15 or more feet. The boat was sitting in the middle of the road tied to the guardrail. It was a real chore loading that boat on the trailer from dry roadbed. I guess that could have been the early 80s or late 70s.
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