Aerial View of the 1937 Flood
15th & Wheeler in Covington
West Covington, looking East 1937
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left, The Foot of Madison Avenue |
| right, Pike Street, south of Main |
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left, Scott Street, between 4th and 5th Streets |
| right, Seventh & Scott |
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left, at the entrance to the Suspension Bridge |
| right, Roughly from Madison Avenue looking north |
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Definitely Covington, likely 1937
Suspension Bridge, 1937
Covington, 1937 Flood
left, looking south from the Suspension Bridge
right, foot of Garrard Street
left, Looking East on 3rd, from
Madison
right, Madison, looking north from Fifth
left, Madison, looking north from
3rd
right, Maryland, looking north, from St. E
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The Covington Library has lots of great 1937 Flood Scenes on their web site. I especially recommend the photo album they have digitized of photographs of Mr. Otis Lowe. The site is here. |
Covington in the 1937 Flood
Aerial view of Covington, 1937
East End Residences, 1937
Another Aerial of Covington, 1937
Covington end of
the Suspension Bridge
1937
Troops Marching to Suspension Bridge
Pontoon Bridge at 5th & Scott
The extent of the 1937 Flood waters
"Covington,
Kentucky, on the Ohio opposite Cincinnati,
under fifteen feet of water - over one-third its area"
1937
"West
Covington, Kentucky, across the Ohio from
Cincinnati, under 15 feet of water."
1937
Twelfth Street Bridge, 1937
7th & Scott, 1937
from St. Benedict's on 17th Street, 1937
St. Elizabeth in the 1937 Flood
This is a steam shovel, brought in to
provide steam to St. Elizabeth,
since the boilers in St. E's basement were flooded, and inoperable.
How much greater was the '37 flood than its predecessors? Lots.
Ground breaking for the Covington floodwall
