I found this interesting. DON PEDRO BAR Merced Express, October 30, 1936 EARLY DAY TOWN NOW UNDER LAKE An old California town, once teeming with life, now lies under 160 feet of water. This unusual addition to the lore of ghost towns was recently revealed by members of the WPA writers project, now compiling the American Guide, a six-volume handbook of the United States. The town was Don Pedro Bar, famed mining town of the gold rush days. From Don Pedro Bar, Well Fargo Express shipped over $13,000,000 in raw gold. In the presidential election of 1865, the old town cast 1,500 votes for president of the United States. Since 1923, Don Pedro Bar has been under 160 feet of water, backed up by the $5,000,000 Don Pedro dam. In the Tuolumne river this dam forms the reservoir from which the Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts are supplied.