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| January 23, 1937, 3 days prior to the crest. | ||
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Main Street, Dayton, 1937
picture on right by John Bischoff
Tacoma Beach in the 1937 Flood
Note Speers Hospital in the background
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| Rifkins, from 5th & McKinney |
3rd Street | A back yard in Dayton | 1937 Flood at Tacoma | Bank of Dayton, 1937 |
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| Walnut Street, 1937 | Sixth & Berry | Sixth & McKinney | Between McKinney & Vine | Front Street |
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In 1937, 75% of Dayton felt the floodwaters: over 7,000 people (out of a population of 10,000) were forced out of their homes, 392 houses were damaged too badly to be repaired, and 51 houses simply lifted off their foundations and floated down the river, never to be seen, in Dayton, again. |
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| Ervin Terrace | McKinney | Dayton |
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| Berry | Clay | Main |
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| Boone | Kenton | Sixth Avenue |
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| This remarkable set of images, taken on the day the flood crested, are from the collection of Andrew Vasche, at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton county | ||
Elizabeth Weinholt Home, January 22, 1937
1015 5th Avenue
From a Facebook posts by Tammy Cornett
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| North on Main, from 7th | Sixth & Boone | Wetzel's Store Fourth & Boone |
| From a Facebook posts by Tammy Cornett, and assumed to be 1937 | ||
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| Overlooking Fifth & Benham | Overlooking Fifth, Between Kenton & Benham |
Overlooking Dayton | Fourth & McKinney | Terrace Avenue |
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| Waddies | 5th & Clark | Tacoma | Somewhere in Dayton |
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| 5th and Benham* | Tacoma Coaster visible* | North on Kenton* |
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| unknown year* | 5th & Boone | 309 Sixth, looking at houses on 5th* |
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| Looking north from Waddies* | 5th and Kenton looking East* | 5th and Kenton looking East* |
| The ten images above are all from Tammy Cornett's Facebook page, The History of Dayton, Ky. We note that she had reservations about the images we've marked with an *, in regard to whether they were really 1937 flood pics. 1933 and 1945 would be the closest big floods on either side of 1937. To her point, we note some of these pics have no flood waters. | ||
Jeanne Niehaus posted this one on Facebook of her Grandpa Frank W Niemeyer
in a rowboat in an unidentified flood, taken from Fifth Street.
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| Wadsworth Watch Case in the 1937 Flood, a.k.a. Waddies | ||
| two pictures on right by John Bischoff | ||
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| Fifth Street | 1937 Flood in Dayton Thanks to Patty Stanger Ludwig for this picture, taken by her Dad. |
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| Still want to know why they need a floodwall in Dayton? photos by M. Parks Watson |
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| Aerial of Dayton, 1937 Flood note roller coaster of Tacoma Park, far left |
Dayton, January, 1937 | The flood left this boat in Dayton |
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| Third near Benham | Fourth and Berry | Forman's, on River St. |
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| 3rd and Benham | Benham, between 3rd and 4th | 3rd and Benham |
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| 3rd & McKinley | Got out alive | 3rd near Benham |
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| Dayton Scenes from the 1937 Flood | Dayton Damage in the 1937 Flood | ||
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| These are all from the 1937 Flood | |||
Kentucky Post, February 4, 1937
Kentucky Enquirer, January 27, 1937
Fourth Street in Dayton, 1937
The flood water isn't the worst part of a flood; the muddy aftermath is.
Followed by dust.
From a Facebook post by Elder Merry
