Sketch of the Basham Hill Reservoir disaster, drawn by Harvey 'Shonk' Shonkwiler of the Portsmouth Daily Times.
This file appears in: Portsmouth’s Basham Hill Reservoir: An Amazing (and Nearly Tragic) History
"A sketch showing the wrecked portion of the reservoir and the great chasm cut by the rushing waters."
This file appears in: Portsmouth’s Basham Hill Reservoir: An Amazing (and Nearly Tragic) History
Portsmouth’s Basham Hill Reservoir: An Amazing (and Nearly Tragic) History
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the City of Portsmouth grew so to did its demand for clean and reliable drinking water. Constructed in 1913, the little-known Basham Hill…