The newspaper printed in Cumberland the day after the March 17 1936 flood.
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This map was included in the Shoppers Guide, a Souvenir History of Cumberland's Flood
CUMBERLAND SHOPPERS GUIDE
The coloring was added by James Rada for a talk Saturday, March 19 at the symposium held at the Allegany Museum on the 1936 St. Patrick’s Day Flood.
The original map had the legend:
Souvenir History of Cumberland's Flood
CUMBERLAND SHOPPERS GUIDE
Price: 5 cents
Offices: 105 Henry Street
Published weekly in Cumberland, Md. by: Stanley Fields and William B. Kaldor
Richard T. Renshaw, City Editor
Delivered at the door of 15,000 homes in the Tri State area.
Advertising rates on request
The Shopper's Guide will be glad to consider for publication items submitted by its readers.
Heavy Reinforcements of troops for the Army of the Potomac have been en route over the B & O Railroad for seven days now. They consist principally of infantry from the State of Ohio.
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.