Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Floods

“I believe the dam has burst!”

The Great Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889 is remembered as the worst disaster by dam failure in American history.

It was the city’s worst flood up to that time. The March 1924 deluge left most of Westernport MD under water.

It was March 23, 1929 and nothing in the path of rising Emory River was safe. The hills and mountain streams poured forth to swell the river.

The rain Sunday night came in cloud-burst fury, flooding the narrow gorges and trapping people before they knew what was upon them.

Irene Drukker Broh, one of Huntington’s foremost civic leaders, led a campaign to pass a $1 million bond to fund the city’s flood wall.

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