The Mill River Flood The 1874 Massachusetts Dam Burst That Killed 139 Downstream
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ePUB 3
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Ja
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
26.07.2026
Verlag
NobleTrex PressSeitenzahl
154 (Printausgabe)
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2171 KB
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Englisch
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6610001293703
On a clear Saturday morning in May 1874, western Massachusetts woke to breakfast fires, mill whistles, and the steady river that had built five factory villages. Then the dam above Williamsburg began to move. Within minutes, a wall of stored water was charging down the Mill River valley, smashing houses, ripping apart mills, and killing 139 people before many even understood what was coming. How did a prosperous industrial valley become a death corridor in a single morning? The Mill River Flood tells that story at ground level and at full speed: the factory owners who decided to store a river, the warnings that were seen and ignored, the dam tender George Cheney and the desperate riders who tried to outrun the torrent, and the families in Williamsburg, Skinnerville, Haydenville, Leeds, and Florence whose ordinary day turned instantly to terror. What unfolds is not just a disaster narrative, but a chain of human choices, technical failures, and lost minutes that reads with the force of a thriller because every word is true. Vivid, deeply researched, and relentlessly humane, this book reconstructs one of America's earliest great dam catastrophes with scrupulous care and narrative power. It is a story of ambition, negligence, courage, grief, and justice that never quite arrived-and once you enter the valley, you will not forget what the water carried away.
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