""Bridging the Generations" The History of Old Randolph 1855 - 1960
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"Big Dam Foolishness" The Blue Valley Bells was a group of women who kept a strong fight going to stop the Tuttle Creek dam when the men were out in the field working. A group of the women went to see president Dwight D. Eisenhower in Denver. Another group of women went to Washington D.C. to protest the dam. A bus traveled through many states that had towns that were destroyed like Randolph. Another bus took people to march on Washington to protest the building of the dam. The people of Randolph raised $15,000 to pay a Hollywood movie producer to make a movie called the "Tuttle Creek Story". The people of Randolph put up signs saying "Should this town be destroyed by Big Dam Foolishness? 85 feet of Tuttle Creek water!" Altogether $250,000 was spent trying to stop the dam.
Photos courtesy of The Riley County Historical Society and The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Robert Johnson Date 1952
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