Floodtide of 1927: A Gathering of Reports and Pictures which Tell Their Story Graphically of the Great November Flood in Vermont State by: Author: Johnson, Luther B.
Softcover. Randolph VT, Roy L. Johnson Company, 2nd Ed., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Printed paper wraps, iv, 181 pages. illustrated, portrait frontis. 41 full page b & w illustrations from photographs, small spots on wraps, "The torrential rains began on November 3, 1927. It had already been a wet October and rivers were swollen and the ground saturated. Nine inches of rain fell in a thirty-six hour period and horrendous flooding began. Though all of New England was affected, Vermont was devastated. The state flooded from Newport to Bennington, with the Winooski River Valley the hardest hit. Eighty-five people died and 9,000 were left homeless." Clean copy.