Waste Weir
The original weir measured six-hundred feet wide and consisted of timber cribs, filled and backed with gravel. About twenty-five thousand cubic feet of framed timber and ties, plus twenty-eight thousand board feet of planks were used for the construction. On June 24, 1907, the waste weir gave way and the water poured out of a breach thirty feet wide, causing the Miami River to overflow its banks, devastating farms for miles downstream of the lake.
The barefooted boy in the left of the black-and-white postcard shown on the left was carefully removed when the card was reprinted as a hand-colored postcard shown on the right. The group of people to the right was allowed to remain on later versions, although their clothing remained black and white.
Vintage Postcards of Indian Lake, Ohio 