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The 1936 Northeastern United States flood was a historic flood that occurred across the Northeastern United States, as well as the Mid-Atlantic region and Ohio, in March 1936. Record-setting flooding after a combination of a particularly precipitation-heavy winter and large amounts of rainfall in March caused severe damage across the region.
[4]: 34 In 1837 the Winchester and Potomac Railroad reached Harpers Ferry from the south, and Latrobe joined it to the B&O line using a "Y" span. [ 4 ] : 65 John Brown used the B&O bridge at the beginning of his failed attempt to start a slave insurrection in Virginia and further south.
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States.The population was 269 at the 2020 United States census.Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in the lower Shenandoah Valley, where Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet, it is the easternmost town in West Virginia as well as its lowest point above sea level.
Edison power plant in Williamsport, Maryland, after the March 18, 1936 flood, surrounded by water from the Potomac River. The facility later became the R. Paul Smith Power Station.
This winter flood in March 1936 caused even more damage to the abandoned canal, still recovering from the damage caused by the extreme floods just over a decade prior. This flood, caused by the thawing of earlier ice, combined with the flow of heavy rains, led to the highest water mark the Potomac River had ever had thus far, destroying ...
The 119-foot (36 m) dam would have created a reservoir extending nearly to Harpers Ferry. Superseded by the Seneca Dam proposal farther upriver, also never built. Harpers Ferry: Proposed in the vicinity of Sandy Hook and Weverton, the reservoir would have flooded the lower part of Harpers Ferry with a pool extending past Shepherdstown. It was ...
The industrial districts which border the Kansas River in Kansas City were protected by a 10 m (33 ft) dike which was equipped with floodgates at each tributary and topped by an 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wall, which was designed to manage a flood 1.5 m (4.9 ft) higher than the June 1903 flood. The onset of floodwaters reached Kansas City, Kansas on July ...
The Heyward Shepherd monument. The Heyward Shepherd monument is a monument in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, dedicated in 1931.It commemorates Heyward [a] Shepherd (1825 – October 17, 1859), a free black man who was the first person killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.