Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
Overview of Flood
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
acfl108
IDEntry
7445
Creator
Carl Pedersen
Date
2002
Collection Location
Western Maryland Room
Coverage
Allegany County, Md., 1936
Body
Carl Pederson's talk to the Torch Club in Hagerstown in 2002 is attached as a PDF.
It provides a strong overview of the flood in the east coast.
Mr. Pederson has continued to research the topic and has made a correction to this document. The rail bridge at Shepherdstown was not washed out in the flood. The deck truss bridge over Potomac River on Norfolk Southern Railway in Shepherdstown built in 1904 is still in operation.
Notes
The photograph shows the road bridge at Shepherdstown has been washed away. The rail bridge is out of the picture to the left.