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Title	Marietta During the 1936 Flood Photographs
Subject	Business and Labor Geography and Natural Resources Climate and Weather Floods Stores & shops Boats
Place	Marietta (Ohio) Washington County (Ohio)
Description	Six 3.5" by 5.5" (8.9 by 14 cm) photographs document the flooding that occurred in Marietta in 1936. The images show downtown Marietta businesses including a bowling alley, hat shop, restaurant, and watch repair shop. People can be seen on second floors and traveling by small boats. The first five show the flooding on March 20th, the sixth was taken on March 21, 1936. In March 1936 heavy rains causes rivers and tributaries to overflow causing widespread flooding from the northeast down through the Midwest. Floodwaters from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were carried down the Ohio River, through the Ohio Valley. In preparation for the coming floods, many Marietta businesses moved to higher ground, and the Marietta fire department prepared a station at the Marietta College field house in case the main station was flooded. The full fire department was prepared to be on hand until the flooding was over. On March 20 the water reached the 48-foot crest stage. Floodwaters receded quickly in the evening and Works Progress Administration laborers were added city street forces to aid in clean-up. On March 28 the river crested again at 40.4 feet as a result of another heavy rainstorm. Two hundred people died as a result of the flooding in the Ohio Valley and damage exceeded 250 million dollars.
Date of Original	March 20, 1936 - March 21, 1936
Collection	S. Durward Hoag Collection
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Washington County Public Library
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2168_2745009_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2168_2745009_001.tif
Image Height	1380
Image Width	2166
File Size	764.725 KB

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