Historical Marker
Lake Somerville
Historical marker location:
Somerville, Texas
( At 8th and Thornberry in front of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office at dam at Lake Somerville at the SW edge of Somerville)
Marker installed: 1968
First shovel of earth for Somerville Dam was turned Sept. 22, 1962, by Lyndon Johnson, then vice president of United States.
Dam was built to control flooding on Yegua Creek. In the 46 years prior to 1958, Yegua has flooded 43 times, costing lives, crops. Project was finished 1967.