East end of Hancock, after the 1936 flood. Notice the telephone pole in the water.
Marian Golden remembered her father reporting that the majority of the flooding was in the west end of town. Only "Ice Hollow", the site of Hardee's today, was flooded in the east end.
The boat is being rowed down Main Street in Hancock, passed Dr. M.H. Cohen's dentist office and the sign in the water for Southern Dairies Icecream.
This annotated photograph shows the effect of the 1936 flood on the bridge crossing the Potomac River at Hancock. The high water mark on the bridge is marked where the span was washed away. A collection of leaves wedged at high water level in a tree is also marked.
The top image is from an undated postcard showing the three span bridge over the Potomac from Hancock to West Virginia. The booklet, "A Sketch of Hancock, Maryland, September, 1925", author unknown, notes that "the Big Bridge across the Potomac is now owned by the States of Maryland and West Virginia and is free to the public."
The lower picture, taken by Arthur White, shows the center span of the bridge underwater. The Report of the State Roads Commission of Maryland for the years 1935-1936, produced by the Maryland State Roads Commission noted: