I think restoration and recreation are, by definition, separate avenues altogether. One returns something to its' former glory while the other counts as more of a likeness. Something was recreated, but that implies it wasn't there in the first place. It has been gone for some time.

Leaving the dead buried, now, that would depend on what tales they still had to tell. ( And that pride could be taken in things before and after, dead and buried, as well as alive and well. Pride has no real distinction between the living, the dead, the abstract and the gauche. ) Pride is neither here nor there, especially when something you're proud of is partially obscured by dam waters. But, that's just me.