Now how is it that I have heard that molasses story before? It's really a memorable event!
In this area, the memorable event isn't quite so funny. An aluminum smelting plant needed a source of electricity, and a lake nearby was dammed at the outlet. It raised the lake level enough that an entire Indian village was washed away. While they forced everyone to evacuate, they forgot about the people who were away hunting and arrived home to find it gone, and they didn't count on the graveyard releasing the dead. The lake level goes down at some times during the year, and it's fascinating to go walk around the old village area.