Authored by LaVonne M. Sparkman, From Homestead to Lakebed: Kosmos—The Town that Drowned chronicles the rise and deliberate inundation of Kosmos, a small logging and milling community in Washington State that was wiped off the map to make way for the Mayfield Dam. The book utilizes historical records, photographs, and accounts from former residents to trace how a thriving early-twentieth-century industrial settlement was systematically dismantled, evacuated, and submerged beneath the Cowlitz River. Through these local archives, the text preserves the poignant human cost of hydroelectric progress on rural Pacific Northwest ecosystems and neighborhoods. A keen insight drawn from the work is how corporate and state infrastructure projects treat localized working-class history as entirely disposable collateral; by documenting how a self-sustaining town was erased by utility planning, the narrative underscores how modern energy demands have repeatedly required the literal burial of regional heritage.