1960s Flooding??

Does anyone have photos of Lake Koshkonong flooding from the 1960s?

We have newspaper articles from the flood of 1959 - and the 2008 flood was higher - but I cannot find what this person is referring to.

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   Record flooding in 2008? What about back in ’60s?

   Officials say the flooding on the Rock River this spring got close to the highest ever, which they say occurred June 21, 2008. They had better check their records. 

Back in the 1960s, the Rock River was up just a few inches below the Newville Bridge. The Anchor Inn in Newville was flooded, and water was 2 or 3 feet deep in the building of another bar called Snug Harbor, now Harbor Recreation. 

The water was almost up to Highway 59 between Milton and Newville. I have been told that, at the time, Otter Creek north of Milton backed up into Bowers Lake and Storrs Lake. 

At the time, walleyes went up Otter Creek and got into Storrs Lake. That summer people caught walleyes in Storrs Lake, and they had never caught them in there before. 

You can ask most any older person who lived around Newville in the ’50s and ’60s, and they can tell you about this. 

JOHN R. BERGMAN 
Milton