Download or read book The Ohio and Mississippi River Floods of January February 1937 Etc written by Bennett SWENSON and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio and Mississippi River Floods of January February 1937 written by Bennett Swenson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Floods of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers January February 1937 written by Nathan Clifford Grover and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thousand Year Flood written by David Welky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth anniversary, The Thousand-Year Flood is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky first shows how decades of settlement put Ohio valley farms and towns at risk and how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he tells the gripping story of the river's inexorable rise: residents fled to refugee camps and higher ground, towns imposed martial law, prisoners rioted, Red Cross nurses endured terrifying conditions, and FDR dispatched thousands of relief workers. In a landscape fraught with dangers—from unmoored gas tanks that became floating bombs to powerful currents of filthy floodwaters that swept away whole towns—people hastily raised sandbag barricades, piled into overloaded rowboats, and marveled at water that stretched as far as the eye could see. In the flood's aftermath, Welky explains, New Deal reformers, utopian dreamers, and hard-pressed locals restructured not only the flood-stricken valleys, but also the nation's relationship with its waterways, changes that continue to affect life along the rivers to this day. A striking narrative of danger and adventure—and the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disaster—The Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little-remembered American story.
Download or read book Floods of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers January February 1937 written by Nathan Clifford Grover and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 written by James E. Casto and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time settlers first pushed into the Ohio Valley, floods were an accepted fact of life. After each flood, people shoveled the mud from their doors and set about rebuilding their towns. In 1884, the Ohio River washed away 2,000 homes. In 1913, an even worse flood swept down the river. People labeled it the "granddaddy" of all floods. Little did they know there was worse yet to come. In 1937, raging floodwaters inundated thousands of houses, businesses, factories, and farms in a half dozen states, drove one million people from their homes, claimed nearly 400 lives, and recorded $500 million in damages. Adding to the misery was the fact that the disaster came during the depths of the Depression, when many families were already struggling. Images of America: The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 brings together 200 vintage images that offer readers a look at one of the darkest chapters in the region's history.
Download or read book The Flood of January 1937 in the Ohio and Lower Mississippi River Basins written by Illinois. Division of Waterways and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1937 written by American National Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Floods of 1913 in the Rivers of the Ohio and Lower Mississippi Valleys written by Alfred Judson Henry and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flood Deposits of the Ohio River January February 1937 A Study of Sedimentation written by George Rogers MANSFIELD and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Flood Control Plan for Ohio and Lower Mississippi Rivers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Ohio River Flood of January 1937 at Jeffersonville Indiana written by Wilmer T. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio and Mississippi Floods of 1912 written by Harry Crawford Frankenfield and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1937 Flood written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrapbooks of newspaper articles related to the Ohio River flood and cleanup, Jan. 22-March 10, 1937, and of the freezing over of the Ohio River, Jan. 1940. Very few clippings have the newspaper identified, but most are very likely from the 3 Cincinnati papers publishing at that time, the Enquirer, Post, and Times-Star. A total of 106 p. of adhesive scrapbook pages with plastic cover sheets. The flood clippings cover Jan.-Feb. 1937, and the river freezing, Jan. 1940, 10 p. at the end of v.3.
Download or read book Year of the Big Flood 1937 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound volume of complete Cincinnati area newspapers published during the Ohio River flood, from Thursday, January 21, 1937 to Monday, February 8, 1937: Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati Times-Star, Cincinnati Post, Kentucky Post. Also includes the Cincinnati Post souvenir edition of Saturday, February 13, 1937, and the Cincinnati Times-Star edition "10 wet days: a pictorial history of 1937 Greater Cincinnati flood.
Download or read book Flood Report on Cincinnati Ohio written by Ohio Inspection Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report on the 1937 Ohio River flood in Cincinnati Ohio. Report details the general timeline of the flood, the conditions during, and the incurred damage after the event. Also contains provisions for the future.
Download or read book The 1937 Flood of the Ohio River written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrapbook of clipping (chiefly captioned ills.) of the Ohio River flood and cleanup, Jan.-March, 1937. Newspapers not identified, but likely from the 3 Cincinnati papers publishing at that time, the Enquirer, Post, and Times-Star.
