Ever heard of the Hurricane of 1938? Well, if you seen logs on the Kimball Pond Dam or seen them poking their heads above the surface of the pond, you’ve seen evidence of it.

The famous hurricane leveled huge swaths of forest throughout New England. So much timber needed to be salvaged that the U.S. government bought much of it and stored it in ponds, like Kimball Pond, to keep it from dry rotting or becoming insect infested until it could be milled. As a result, some of the logs that surface at Kimball Pond today have U S stamped in their butts.

The logs that wash up on the dam sank to the bottom of the pond more than 80 years ago. They are waterlogged on the outside and very heavy, but the wood is as good as it was in the 30s.