Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
Photographs of flood damage
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
acfl067
IDEntry
7403
Creator
Captain Robert Barrick
Date
1936-03
Collection Location
Camp Albert C. Ritchie Military Reservation
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1936
Body
The flood affected areas in Maryland not only in the Potomac River basin. This photograph was taken in Cascade, Washington County, MD. The cascading water over the dam that you see under the Western Maryland Railway bridge is coming from Lake Royer on the Fort Ritchie Military Reservation, on South Mountain between Washington and Frederick Counties.
Notes
Captain Barrick took this photo as the National Guard officer in charge of building Camp Ritchie. This copy of the photograph is housed at Fort Ritchie -- Pen Mar Archives (FR--PMA). Used with permission of Major Kirk Pietsch, Maryland National Guard, Fifth Armory, Baltimore, where the original photograph is housed.