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    In this exhibit, the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections has selected items from their extensive collection of family papers and institutional records to pay tribute to students past and present.
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  • Vermont Flood, November 4, 1927
  • Vermont Flood, November 4, 1927 Image 1 The images for our current exhibit come from a collection of photographs and postcards of the Vermont flood of November 3-4, 1927. Donated to the Society in 2003, the images depict the damage the devasting floods caused to the towns of St. Johnsbury and East Barnet. 

    The Vermont flood of 1927 was the worst in Vermont history. Torrential rains from a tropical storm caused widespread flooding destroying bridges, farm lands, houses and other buildings. Included with the photographs are notes written to a relative by the photographer providing a first hand account of the destruction.

    [Photographs of the St. Johnsbury Flood, 1927 November 4] Mss A 3113 is kept in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department and is available to NEHGS members for viewing.

     

    Vermont Flood, November 4, 1927 Image 2
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    		 "What is left of the flat in toe of the horse shoe bend. Washed down to solid rock, Thirty to forty pounds deep.Dug a corner out from under Row's store and Post Office, clear into the cellar. They had to dynamite to save the buildings. Did not hurt the bridge or the dam under the bridge."
    Vermont Flood, November 4, 1927 Image 3
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    "This is what is left of Roy Bro's Mills and a million and a half of sawed lumber.The saw mill stood between the blacksmith shop (which is off its foundation) and this big new building. This is where they made croquet sets and the office was in this end. Floor all gone, below and some from above, machinery smashed and some carried away.The covered bridge which was just in front was found in Bradford Some forty miles below"
    Vermont Flood, November 4, 1927 Image 4
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    		 "This darker building is the East Barnet depot, which was carried upstream about fifty feet by the backwash, the other is a nice house which stood near the depot, it never can be repaired. The site is where Roy Bros. barns store house and garage stood. They are gone completely And everything that was in them except a pile of wicket wire about four feet long and three feet high. They had just unloaded a full car load."
    Vermont Flood, November 4, 1927 Image 5
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    		 "Another view of the same place. Notice how all the soil is gone. Nothing but bare rocks left"
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