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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