Keywords: Androscoggin Flood (1936)
Item 20497
Flooded bridge, Brunswick, 1936, 1936
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1936 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 20496
Water pouring over bridge, Brunswick, 1936 flood
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1936 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood
Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood examines the monumental destruction caused by the historic flood of 1936 through the comprehensive and innovative photojournalism done by the Guy Gannett Publishing Company in the weeks surrounding the flood.
Exhibit
The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin
Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville
"Then the Big Flood in 1936 came along and wiped out the Ridlonville Bridge. Many homes and businesses along the Androscoggin were destroyed, some…"
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4
"The most notorious flood happened in March, 1936, when the Business Island was flooded; the Morse bridge, the steel Rumford Falls Bridge, the…"
