 Both of the rivers soon had flooded and with the onset of the Great Depression showed there was no future for the town and the post office closed in 1942.The Drew Mansion was then abandoned and vandalized for many years until it was burnt to the ground in the 1970s.In 1986, the Hillman Bridge built in 1925 by the Federal Aid Project and designed by the RHH Blackwell Company of East Aurora, New York.