A view across the Conococheague Creek to the Victor Cushwa and Sons Brick plant. Note the round kilns, the tall drying room, and the overhead conveyor.
This Kelley photograph taken from the church steeple in Williamsport shows the Potomac River and the Rt 11 bridge. The house on the far bank where the bridge reaches the West Virginia shore is Maidstone-on-the-Potomac. It was built by Evan Watkins, who operated Watkins Ferry on the Potomac.
The Conomac Park (from Conococheague and Potomac) closed after this flood in 1936
Conomac Park at Williamsport was inundated as the high water of the Potomac backed up the normally narrow Conococheague river. Box cars on the Western Maryland tracks and several houses were completely inundated.
The old power plant and the Cushwa warehouse, now by the Cushwa basin on the C&O canal. Between the power plant and the tannery with its towers is the Conococheague Creek.
Hagerstown Pumping Plant above Williamsport, Maryland
Kelly's Studio and Camera Shop, Hagerstown Md.
3-19-1936
Made with Fairchild Aerial Camera
A-3
Hancock (Md.) canoeist takes pair from roof.
United States Army in World War II U.S. Army Center of Military History
Views Of Flood Which Swept Potomac River Valley
This aerial photographs show the effects of Potomac waters in the vicinity of Hancock. The photograph shows a general view of the town where many homes were vacated by residents. Picture were taken from a National Guard plane piloted by Lieut. P. DeBrutz Jacques, of Washington county.
Published in the Hagerstown Morning Herald.
Views Of Flood Which Swept Potomac River Valley
An aerial photograph showing the effects of Potomac waters in the vicinity of Hancock. A view of Hancock and the highway bridge which was later swept out by the surging waters. Photograph taken from a National Guard plane piloted by Lieut. P. DeBrutz Jacques, of Washington county.
Published in the Morning Herald, Hagerstown, March 20, 1936
The westside of Hancock was extensively flooded in the flood of 1936
Main Street, Hancock, near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue, March 1936
Marian Golden reported that her father, the photographer, told her that the 1936 flood was higher, more rapid, more intense that the 1985 flood. He said it was cleaner, in the sense there was only mud left behind, rather than the oily, polluted garbage that later floods have brought.