" To Remember and Understand"
Hartford, CT
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The East Side of Hartford, which included Front Street, was subject to flooding from the Connecticut River which ran just a few hundred feet away! No protective walls or dike had been built since the city was founded!
This first picture gives you a birdseye view of Hartford East Side NOT flooded!
And here the approximate same view flooded in 1936.
1936 flood, Morgan Street.
1936, Commerce and State st.
1936, Asylum Street
1936 flood, lobby of Bond Hotel!
1936, Front Street
Hartford, CT
ppirrott