While on a hunt for the old Sequalitchew Creek swimming hole from the 1920′s.  The swimming hole was constructed ca. 1920 by the DuPont Company. It was used for swimming and fishing back then and Yes, there would actually be fish in the creek. They had built an array of decking, diving board, benches and even some changing houses. UPDATE: I went back a few weeks later and embarked on the changing house side of the hole. This was much tougher of a trek it is severly overgrown and the shoreline is almost all but impossible to get to. I couldn’t find any remains of the changing houses and the only sense of any evidence of people are survey tags and streamers left by ESM, and some other companies.

Sequalitchew Creek Today on the other side that dam sits the swimming hole

As suspected upon arriving at the location it is very very overgrown and no structures appear to exist during my investigation into the area. I’ll admit I didn’t stay long  as it was starting to rain and I was still a half mile from home at this point. So I snapped a bunch of pictures and tried place them against the old photo above. I received further confirmation later that night from a life long resident of Historic Village that I was infact at the swimming hole location. Infact he commented that, “the beavers have the marsh 2 ft higher than normal”. So this would explain why I couldn’t get to the other side of the swimming hole most likely.

Considering I didn’t see anything but 1 board sticking up out of the creek that is fed by the marsh outflow I highly suspect that the changing houses on the opposite shore are no longer there, but I will be going back to at least perhaps find where they were exactly for marking them via GPS.

This is the Sequalitchew Creek Dam Head as it stands today. This was created by the DuPont Co. in the early 20′s I believe to divert the water to the power house in the bottom part of the canyon. I have included the 1926 photo for reference. ¹ 

The Flume in 1926 - For more details visit the DuPont Museum

Current Photo 

Winter provides a new look at the creek. Center of image shows what remains.