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Great Flood of 1862

Event date: Apr 24, 1862

Great Flood of 1862. During the past week the inhabitants of the valley of the Connecticut river have witnessed, and many of them painfully experienced, a greater and more disastrous flood than any other that has preceded it within the memory of the “oldest inhabitants.” The rise of water was a full five feet above the highest marks of former freshets.

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