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Article: PIONEER VILLAGE IS A HOME TO HISTORY
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- Dayton Daily News
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- April 20, 2003
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MASSIE TWP., Warren County - Folks protested and filed lawsuits,
but there seemed no stopping it - water was coming through the Caesar
Creek valley and people and homes had to get out of the way.
By May 1973, bulldozers, axes and progress obliterated New
Burlington. Three hundred villagers, a grocery store, three churches,
a garage, a Masonic hall and a cemetery on top of a hill would be in
the path of the U.S. Corps of Engineers' Caesar Creek Lake Project
started in 1971.
But not all of the homes set for demolition would be lost to
flooding and clearing.
When siding, drywall and plaster were pulled from the Levi Lukens
House in 1972, antique logs were discovered.
`Area residents literally ...