11 best 1936 headline newspapers GREAT LOWELL FLOOD DISASTER by MERRIMACK RIVER

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11 best 1936 headline newspapers GREAT LOWELL FLOOD DISASTER by MERRIMACK RIVER:
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11 best 1936 headline display newspapers - The GREAT LOWELL (Massachusetts) FLOOD DISASTER by the MERRIMACK RIVER , also known as the GREAT NEW ENGLAND FLOOD -inv # BV 1W-117

Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTOs-----Lot ofeleven (11) COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERs,theLowell Daily Sun(MA) datedin 1936: March 13, 13 (extra edition), 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, and 25,1936. This is a lot of 11 differentissues.

Contents include the BEST LOCAL headlines and coverage of the GREAT LOWELL FLOOD of 1936, the worst flood in New England history for 1000 years !!!

This is a real TIME MACHINE that takes the reader back to the GREAT NEW ENGLAND FLOOD of 1936, some 80 years ago!! Great gift for a present-day resident of Lowell, MA interested in the early local history of that city.

The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling) is a 117-mile-long river in the northEastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Newburyport. From Pawtucket Falls in Lowell, Massachusetts, onward, the Massachusetts–New Hampshire border is roughly calculated as the line three miles north of the river.

The most significant flood in the recorded history of the Merrimack was in March 1936, when a double flood of rain and melting snow and ice swelled the Merrimack at Lowell to 68.4 feet, 10 feet higher than the 2006 flood.

The rain started pouring in New England on March 11, 1936 and didn’t stop for 14 days, unleashing a flood that covered half of the Eastern United States. Pinkham Notch in New Hampshire recorded 22.43 inches of rain over the period. Nobody in New England had ever seen anything like it. Nobody ever would again.

During two rainy weeks, two consecutive downpours were among the largest and heaviest in U.S. history.

And then a third downpour prolonged the destruction and misery. Rivers became raging torrents from the notches to the Long Island Sound. The Androscoggin rose to record levels in Auburn, Maine, the Merrimack in Lowell, Mass., the Pemigewasset in Plymouth, N.H., the Connecticut in Dalton, N.H., Montague, Mass., Hartford and Thompsonville, Conn. The flood burst dams, wiped out roads, ruined businesses and washed away homes. As many as 200 people were killed and 14,000 left homeless.

It was the worst possible weather combination: An unusually cold snowy winter followed by a warm front that stalled on March 11. With that warm front came the first storm, centered on the White Mountains and lasting until March 13. It dumped five inches of rain onto Maine, New Hampshire and parts of Vermont. Weather forecasters had accurately predicted the floods, and ample warning prevented much loss of life. Most damage was caused by ice jams on rivers.

The damage to property was huge. A tremendous volume of snow melt and rain water poured into ice-blocked channels of rivers and tributaries. Ice carried away bridges over theKennebec and the Androscoggin rivers and washed out mills and railroad tracks near Betheland Rumford, Maine.Ice sheared off a 5000 sq. ft. section of granite from the Holyoke Dam.The floods laid waste to mills, homes, factories and highway bridges. The Maine Central Railroad did manage to save its bridge above the Great Falls at Lewiston-Auburn by positioning cars full of gravel on it.

A second series of torrential downpours from March 16-19 swelled the Merrimack and Piscataquog rivers. Eighteen feet of water flowed through downtown Hooksett, sweeping away utility poles, barns, houses, schools, stores, roads and railway embankments.

By March 18, the north branch of the Nashua River was rising a foot an hour in Lancaster, N.H., Phoebe Lovely had to be rescued by rowboat from her home before floodwaters washed it away. The March 19 Clinton Daily Item reported, \"It is a weird and awesome sight in Lancaster, today, as the town is virtually an island.” In Nashua, N.H., the Souhegan River flooded factories and homes with eight feet of water. Families were evacuated by boat.

Manchester, N.H., was also underwater. Police worked around the clock evacuating families from their homes, snatching some from rooftops, as the Merrimack washed away houses. The National Guard was called up to help police.

The Merrimack floodwaters damaged mills from Manchester and Nashua in New Hampshire to Haverhill, Lowell and Lawrence in Massachusetts. The river rose to 68 feet in Lowell, destroying businesses along the northern banks. Jack Kerouac’s father Leo lost his print shop to the floodwaters. The disaster consigned him to poverty and alcoholism.

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