OHIO RIVER
The first 2 rows shows the three states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana from Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The 3rd row of cards also show The Wharf Landing, and the "Motor (Launch) Fleet."
Lawrenceburg Levee
Peoples Coal Co.
Coal Elevator
Lawrenceburg Ind. Ferry The Ferry Carolyn
Primative (sic) Ferry Boat
Scene on Ohio River
1907 LAWRENCEBURG FLOOD
Train Wreck
Protecting
the Levee
Cottages destroyed
1913 LAWRENCEBURG FLOOD
Spot where levee broke
By January 15, the great flood of 1913 had reached
62' at Lawrenceburg, Indiana but the people of that city, remembering the flood
of 1907 when the water had reached 66' and the levee held, did not even bother
to move their belongings to a higher elevation.
On the 14th a slide occurred between the main flood gate and the
Lawrenceburg gas plant. Two watchmen were assigned to keep an eye on it during
the night. Around midnight on the 16th the ground gave way a short distance from
where watchman Henry Schinaman was sitting. Immediately a chasm opened below him
and water began rushing thru. Henry ran to the Newtown engine house and rang the
bell, alerting the residence of the flood.
It was later determined that the 60' wide by 80' long and 20' deep
opening was made by water seeping through the levee which softened the soil at
the base, plus the incessant rain, caused the earth to slide out due to its own
weight.
Walnut Street Children in the wreckage Regan Hotel
Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Break in Big Four
Levee
Break in Ohio River Levee
High St. Looking West
The 2nd card has Mills Hotel along the right hand side.
There is no date on this postcard so I a guessing at which flood this was taken, it could be the 1907 flood. Any help out there?
1937 LAWRENCEBURG FLOOD
Most of Lawrenceburg is shown under water in this aerial photograph. Lawrenceburg is in the center with Indiana on the left, Ohio in the upper middle and Kentucky on the right. The Ohio River is winding up and to the right and the Great Miami is shown winding around the spit of land in the center.
Seagram's Bottling
Plant
Lawrenceburg Overhead
Walnut St. During Flood
After
Flood
60 Days After Flood
Factory District
Break in the
Levee
Main St. Near
3rd.
Zion Baptist Church
After The Flood
Walnut Street
Lawrenceburg Fair Grounds.
Stoll Filling Station
3rd Street, Looking
East Red
Cross's Tent City
Court House
Repairing The Levee
Public
Library
Big Four R. R.
Depot
Roller (flour) Mills
GHOST CITY BOOK
The following images are from a somewhat rare book
that was put together by M. O. Whitney who was a resident of Lawrenceburg,
Indiana during the catastrophic flood of 1937. He apparently took all these
photographs himself and rented a airplane so he could take pictures from
overhead. With the help and support from his wife he did all this while his home
was being destroyed. I will not be putting up every picture in the book, some
are more or less repeats of others.
I have some postcards which were published by The Whitney Studios
of Lawrenceburg, There obviously must be a connection.
