Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1957.289 |
Title |
Flood 1927 |
Collection |
Flood 1927 |
Object Name |
Papers, events |
Scope & Content |
This file contains the following: 1 - Ledger compiled by Alton G. Wheeler recording the time of those who worked for the Red Cross to clean up the village after the November 4, 1927 flood 1 - DC titled, "Remembering Hell And High Water: The Food of '27, the 75th Anniversary Radio Special" originally broadcast November 3rd & 4th, 2002 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Students to Clean Up Waterbury, VT: 150 from State University to Start Work Today" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Hoover and Sargent to Aid Vermont: Cabinet Officers Will Visit Flood Area by Coolidge Order" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Charlotte Brown Aids Flood Sufferers at Waterbury" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "School Teachers in Red Cross" featuring photographs of Alice Jennings and Charlotte Brown 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Heroism, Cowardice, Humor and Tragedy, in Vermont Disaster: Son of Professor O'Kane, Mountain Hiker, Tells of Adventurous Hike Through Region" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Waterbury, Vt., Fears Merchants Will Not Attempt Rehabilitation - Posters Placed on Telegraph Poles as One-Quarter of Population Leaves - Restrictions on Supplies Are Tightened Up" 1 - Newspaper clipping, "Flood Chases Two Families to Attic: Halts Less Than Foot Away from Their Refuge" 1 - Newspaper clipping from November 18, 1927, concerning the destruction of the Little River temporary bridge built after the flood 1 - Newspaper clipping from November 8, 1927 Boston Evening Transcript titled, "Vermont Governor Calls A Meeting on Rehabilitation: He Summons Department Heads to Consider Statewide Program" featuring a section on Waterbury titled, "Flood at Height in Cemetery" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "The Call from Montpelier" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Two Forced to Swim to Get to Montpelier" about Charles Cole and Earl Pape's trip from Waterbury to Montpelier after the flood 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Gov. Weeks Calls Vermont's State Emergency Board: Will Plan Flood Relief Measures for All the Stricken Sections, Moretown, Lowell Hard Hit, Desperate Appeals to Discouraged Business Men to Stay in Waterbury" 1 - Newspaper article titled, "Refutes Charge That Breaking Dams Caused the Flood: Dean Voley of University of Vermont Says Only Excessive Rainfall Can Be Blamed - More Dams might Aid" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Appeal by Radio" concerning the plea for funds by Governor John E. Weeks 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Many Move Out of Waterbury: Rehabilitation Goes on but Business Men Seem to Lose Heart" 2 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Further Glimpses of Flood-Swept Vermont and People Who Turn Smilingly to Great Task of Rehabilitation" featuring four photographs of flood damage and volunteers 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Waterbury Pictured as Floods Swept In: Salesman Describes Flood That Covered Autos, Whole Families Lost in Winooski at Bolton and Richmond" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Special Legislation May be Necessary in Vermont" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Hardships Increase, New Rain Adds to Job of Workers in Flood District" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Vermont Horror Grows as More Reports Come In" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Heroes of the Flood" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Hoover Shows Vermont Way to Restoration" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Some Vermont Flood Horrors Hoover Saw" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Think Vermont Needs Help" 1 - Pamphlet titled, "Vermont Is Ready" by Honorable John E. Weeks, Governor of Vermont including a reprint of an article from the Associated Press, Montpelier, January 22, 1928 titled, "Vermont, after Worst Flood in History, has 'Come Back,' declares Gov. Weeks" 1 - Letter dated December 20, 1927 to Mr. C.C. Graves, President of Waterbury Savings Bank from Wm. J. Pape of the Waterbury Republican and Waterbury American of Waterbury, Connecticut concerning a loan of credit for Waterbury 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Community Thanksgiving Dinner at Waterbury" including a photograph of Waterbury citizens affected by the flood sharing dinner at the Congregational Church 1 - Book titled, "Stories and Pictures of The Vermont Flood" November, 1927, Compiled by R.E. Atwood 1 - Pamphlet titled, "Central Vermont Railway: Damaged Lines in Vermont caused by Flood November, 1927, reopened Saturday, February 4, 1928" 2 - Booklet titled, "The Vermont Flood, Speech of Hon. Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont in the House of Representatives, Friday March 16, 1928," United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928 1 - Pamphlet titled, "Vermont Flood Relief Corp. Organizes" December 8, 1927 1 - Newspaper articles titled, "Sabbath Day Dawns on Flood Area to Find Suffering and Death in Wake of Disaster" and "Trucks Rush Food to Waterbury Now on Verge of Panic" 1 - Newspaper article from November 7, 1927, titled, "Recover Seven of 28 Dead at Bolton" 1 - Booklet titled, "51 Views of The Vermont Flood, Nov. 3-6-27" by G.W. LaPierrem, including photographs in Waterbury 1 - Issue of the Montpelier Evening Argus, Vol. XXXI. No. 16, November 18, 1927 1 - Issue of the Montpelier Evening Argus, Vol. XXXI. No. 9, November 10, 1927 1 - Issue of the Literary Digest for November 26, 1927, featuring an article titled, "Trials and Heroisms of the New England Flood" 1 - Minutes of Citizens Meeting held on January 10, 1928 in the office of C.C. Graves 1 - Map of the Village of Waterbury, indicating area affected by the flood 1 - "Our Lady of the Flood" poem by N.F. DeGuise 1 - Write-up featured in the Journal of Geography, January 1928 titled, "The New England Flood" by Julia M. Shipman 1 - Newspaper clipping from the November 1, 1948 Burlington Free Press, The Vermont Historical Society comments on the 1927 Flood 1 - Flood Scenes from "When the Water Came to Waterbury" with a history of St. Andrews Catholic Church 7 - Advertisements from Waterbury businesses after the flood including: Waterbury Steam Laundry, Brisbins' Drug Store, F.A. Jewett & Son, The Sheple Coal Co., The Wallace Store, The Demeritt Company, Luce & Leland 1 - Photocopy of a newspaper article titled, "Former Waterbury Resident Who Survived '27 Flood Sends Donation 2 - American Red Cross Disaster Relief Requisition Form 1 - Newspaper article titled, "Rush Chlorine into Stricken Waterbury: Supply Being Used to Purify Water Gets Low and Call for More Results in Long Night Trip From this City" 1 - Newspaper article titled, "Waterbury Fearing Disease Outbreak: All Residents Between Three and 50 Must Submit to Inoculation Within Three Days" 1 - Newspaper article from November 10, 1927, "Order Issues From Chaos in N.E. Flood Territory; VT Relief Work Speeded" 1 - Newspaper article from November 10, 1927 titled, "Survey of Flood Areas from Air to Be Made Today" 1 - Newspaper clipping titled, "Vermont's 1927 Flood Retold" 1 - Newspaper article from the November 6, 1927 titled, "100 Flood Dead in Win-, Montpelier Wrecked, Stricken Towns' Flood" 1 - Newspaper article from the February 1, 1928 Waterbury Record titled, "Train Arrived Sunday: Took Central Vermont Ry. Co. 87 Days to Reach Waterbury with Locomotive After Flood of November 3" 1 - The Vermonter Subscription Blank 1 - Photocopy of "Telephone Topics: Issued Monthly by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company" Vol. XXI, No. 8 December, 1927 10 - Photocopies of Flood photographs 1 - When the Water Came to Waterbury 1 - Article about receding water in the Catholic Church and the fact that amazed parishioners that the State of The Blessed Virgin was carried by water to the center of the sanctuary. 1 - Pamphlet - "The NewEngland Flood, November 1927". 1 - Letter on two sheets of Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company letterhead. 1 - Articles in The Daily Times - "Vermont Casualties 100: Waterbury and Bolton had the Greatest Death List". 1 - Burlington Free Press newspaper - "At Nature's Mercy". |
People |
Adams, Charles B. Adams, Chauncey A., Rev. Andrews, Arthur I. Arkley, J.R. Atwood, R.E. Ayers, Orlo L. Bingham, H.L. Brown, Charlotte Carpenter, George Carpenter, Robert D., Sr. Carty, George Carty, Roland F. Chase, Stanley Clark, W.B. Cole, Charles Collins, Leon A. Cutting, Harry N. Davis, W.F. Davis, William F. DeGuise, Napoleon Demeritt, R.W. Demeritt, Roy Devoy, Robert, Rev. Evans, George H. Flannery, Raymond J. Flannery, T.J. Ford, H.L. Gilbert, William Graves, C.C. Guptil, S.E. Izor, Paul Jennings, Alice Joslyn, Ernest E. Kerner, Eugene Koopman, H.L. Longe, Kenneth Magnus, E.W. May, Fred Metcalf, H.H. Moody, M.H. Moore, R.H., Rev. Newbury, George Newcomb, W.J. Northrop, Edwin C. O'Clair, Ollie O'Kane, Walter C. O'Kane, William H. Palmer, E.F. Pape, Earl Pape, Wm. J. Perry, W.H.B. Potter, A.C. Prescott, M.L. Raine, Paul Ravelin, George Sargent, Walter Sevene, Earl R. Sherman, George Shipman, Julia M. Smith, C.P., Jr. Spalding, John L. Squier, Lloyd Thompson, H.A. Warren, C.C. Willis, H.H. Wood, George Woods, W.A. Woodward, Charles |
Search Terms |
1927 Flood Central Vermont Railway Elm Street, Waterbury, VT Little River Randall Street, Waterbury, VT St. Andrew Church Vermont State Hospital Waterbury Savings Bank & Trust Co. |
Subjects |
Aerial photographs Aid (Relief) Banks Bridges Businessmen Cattle Damage to property Dams Farms Floods Government Governors Letters Martial law Miracles Newspaper clippings Presidents Radio broadcasting Railroads Railways Students Teachers Typhoid fever World War II |