Kenton Street, north from 4th, 1907	Dayton in the 1907 Flood	4th Street, East from Clay

 

“This is a view of Kenton St. X marks show how high water was, 69 8/10th's.  We had 5 feet 6 inches in house, and it left 3 good inches of slimy mud to clean besides ruining in the wallpaper and all the wood work has to be done over.  Walks and fence all up.  I am so tired of cleaning mud that I could run away.”

 

1913 Dayton

 

Dayton, 1907 or 1913
West from 2nd Street

 

Benham Street, 1913 That's St. Francis in the distance.  The 1913 flood  destroyed the foundation, and the church was  razed shortly thereafter.	The author of this card notes that St. Francis,  in the background, is under 14 feet of water.

 

Back Yard, 3rd & Benham	3rd, near Benham	4th & Berry

 

Between 3rd & 4th, near Benham	3rd near Benham	The 3rd & Benham Area, 1910

 

 

Dayton in the 1913 Flood.  You're looking north from 6th, down onto St. Francis church and school.
If you need a better reference point, there's a handy little map, from the Sanborn series,  here.
More on the Sanborn Fire Maps is here.

 

     

These maps show the extent of the 1913 Flood in Dayton,
and are from Donald Bauer's The Great Flood of 1913

 

Harvard Piano Company
northeast corner of 5th & Clay
likely 1913

 

West from Second street,  Dayton, Kentucky, likely 1913	Same scene, without the flood waters	Same house,  looking  the other way
	photos by Wm. Brengelman	photos by Wm. Brengelman

The clean up did not go smoothly.

The above seven scenes are photographs by Wm. Brengelman, and are likely  the flood of 1913

 

Represented to us as Dayton, Kentucky in the 1913 flood