January 31: A Double Dam Disaster Devastates Danbury

January 31: A Double Dam Disaster Devastates Danbury

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Jan-31-TodayinCThistory-.mp3   In 1860, residents living in Danbury, Connecticut banded together to build a large, earthen dam to create a reservoir that would provide a steady water supply for the town’s steadily-increasing population and burgeoning factories.  A few years later, they built a second dam about a mile downriver, and the structures became known as the Upper and Lower Kohanza …