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Title	Marietta Following the 1913 Flood Photographs
Subject	Transportation Religion in Ohio Geography and Natural Resources Climate and Weather Floods Clergy
Place	Marietta (Ohio) Washington County (Ohio)
Description	Three photographs document the debris that covered Marietta's streets following the 1913 flood. The first image shows Putnam and Front Streets, while the second shows the east side of Front Street from the direction of Greene Street. In the third image, of Front Street from Butler, includes Reverend Elijah Coil. The photographs measure 6.5" by 13.5 (16.5 by 34 cm). Coil (1858-1918) was a minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Marietta from 1895 until his death in 1918. He was known for forceful sermons and his poetry. He attended Union Christian College in Indiana and was a graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs. He was also post master of the American Union Lodge No. 1 F. & A. M. (Masons) and a member of other Marietta Masonic lodges. He was vice president of the Marietta board of education at the time of his death. Coil served congregations in Yellow Springs; Cincinnati; Westborough, Massachusetts; and Marietta. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the streams throughout the state rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were overtopped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. Nearly every riverside city had flooding. Great fires that raged unchecked added to the destruction and the loss of life. When the flood waters receded, the destruction was staggering. Tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories. The buildings in the heart of the town were either burned or swept away and the bridges were gone. There was no fuel to dry the houses or warm the people. In Marietta, 984 families lived in the flooded part of the city affecting 6,000 people. Property loss in Marietta was estimated at more than $1 million. Statewide the death toll stood at 361 and property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. Since the 1913 flood, most of the small communities along the Muskingum River have seen a slow and steady decline in population and economic growth. By 1933, Ohio approved the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, headquartered in New Philadelphia. The district built 14 dams, creating 14 reservoirs in the upper Muskingum River Valley. The conservancy district controls the 16,000 acres of water and 38,000 acres of land.
Date of Original	March, 1913
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_2742057_011
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_2742057_011.tif
Image Height	2369
Image Width	3755
File Size	2504.39 KB

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