2nd Street, East From Bridge, 1913, Maysville High School in the distance	On 2nd, west, toward Poplar, April, 1913	Front and Market Streets, 1913	East Second Street near Poplar, 1913. Note Growers Tobacco Warehouse on the right

 

Maysville in the  1913 Flood	Front Street in the 1913 Flood	Third Street, by  the L & N Depot	Somewhere in Maysville, 1913 Flood

 

Flood Damage, 1913	Front Street in the 1913 Flood	Second Street in  the 1913 Flood	Back of the St. Charles Hotel (it faced Front St.)

 

Second and Poplar	Home of A. C. Spahr, owner of Maysville Brickyard	Second and Sutton	C & O Freight Station, Clooney and Second

C & O Passenger Station	Second & Sutton, 6th Ward That's J. C. Cablish & Son Grocers on the right	Second and Poplar note Growers Tobacco Warehouse on left	Notice Flat Car Bridge on the left Maysville, 1913 Flood

Second and Wall Street	Residences on East Second Street	Second and  Limestone	C & O Depot

West Second, looking east to Wall	Front Street	Plow Factory on E. Second	East Second  Street, Maysville

Chansler Drug Store	Second Street in the 1913 Flood	Second Street East from Prospect	Commerce Street, Maysville

 

An old baseball stadium?	West Second Street	Flat Cars at the L & N Depot	Second Street

 

West Second Street	Walnut Street Garage	Wall and Second Street

 

Chanseler's Drug Store	The Cochran House	Back of the Mason  Lumber Company	Second and  Limestone

 

Market and Front	Second and Commerce That's the W. B. Mathews Lumber Co in background	The C & O Passenger  Station	From the top of the  First National Bank

 

Looking northwest in the 1913 Flood That's the L & N Railroad	East Second Street

 

Idiots driving thru flood waters in a car is not a new phenomenon.

 

Unidentified 1913 Flood pics

 

Market Street, 1913	West Second Street	East Street, 1913

 

The coverage of the 1913 flood in Maysville from the Lexington Leader:
March 29, 1913	March 31, 1913	Another March 31, 1913

Another view of the 1913 flood in Maysville.

Yet another view of the 1913 flood.

The 1913 flood crested on March 31, at 68.4 feet, and is estimated to have been eight and a half to ten inches higher than the previous record of 1884. 1937 would add 7 feet to that record, cresting on January 27th, at 75.4 feet.

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