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Title
Flood
at
Buckingham
Place
Image ID Number
H02437
Date
1904 circa
Decade
1900s
Creator
John
Coy
,
Fort
Collins
Description
Flood
at
Buckingham
Place
, the
Great
Western
Sugar
Factory
housing
for the
German-Russian
beet
workers
.
Buckingham
is
located
in
Lincoln
St
.
between
Willow
and
Lemay
. In
1904
the
greatest
flood
in
Fort
Collins
history
occurred
. A
wall
of
water
nearly
14
feet
high
burst
through
the
Poudre
Canyon
,
spreading
out
over
the
bottom
land
farms
sweeping
away
everything
movable
.
15
bridges
were
wiped
out
as
well
as
all
irrigation
head
gates
.
Flood
waters
covered
N
.
College
to a
depth
of
5
feet
, as
150
houses
were
swept
off
their
foundations
.
Content Type
buildings
Subject
Floods--Colorado--Fort Collins--History
Buckingham Place neighborhood (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Cache la Poudre River (Colo.)--Floods
Image Source
Coy Collection
Format
image/jpeg
Image Collection
Coy Collection
File Location
FC
-
Subjects
-
Natural
Disasters
-
Floods
;
Glass
Plate
in
COY-1
Language
English
Image Origin
Print
;
Glass
Plate
Negative
Collection Name
HistoricPhotographs
Web Exhibit
Waterways
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