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May 1874
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Mr Buckingham preached |
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Heard the news of the great castrophe |
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the breaking of the reservoir in Williamsburg |
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Teams have been runing all day to visit the scene |
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es-day- Plowed rest of garden. In shop &c. |
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Picking stones from grass. In garden- sowed Beans |
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Peas, Mr L. ado E time-Sage-Ed plowing fitting land for corn |
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Sent 1 pair 2 Yr old Steers to Hawley to be pasture |
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by Albert Stebbins & co. at 25c Each, per week- |
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Lt sprinkles- Cultivating & bushing corn land. |
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G of 1/2 ton Plaster at Steam mill. |
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Ed. went with others to Northampton digging &c |
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Searching for the dead from the great catastrophe |
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ainy day. In shop making wheel barrow. |
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Ed sifted ashes for corn &c |
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Cool- Reparing stone bridge in house cor |
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Zucker worked 2 1/2 hours- |
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Planted 1 3/4 @ Corn over hollow with planter putting |
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ashes & plaster in hill- went to Greenfield with Fanny & Ed |
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Cool- Mr. Buckingham preached |
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ainy day- Packing our tobacco- filling up boxes. |
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Finished packing Tobacco in fine order 4089 pd |
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Weeding tobacco bed first time. |
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Very Warm. Ed carting manure on Beige? pr for tobacco |
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Attended auction sale John H Stebbins Personal property. Clark Allis &
Judith here. |
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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: Josiah Allen, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, heard the news of the Mill River flood in church the next day. That afternoon, his neighbors readied their teams of horse and oxen to drive them to the stricken region where they would be used to pull away flood debris, such as trees, roofs, and boulders, so that men could search for bodies. His son Ed volunteered (like thousands of others) two days later to search and clear wreckage. Since the disaster occurred during planting season, Mr. Allen had to continue his farm chores of planting and weeding. When the Williamsburg reservoir dam broke on May 16, 1874, it flooded a valley lined with factories and farms and killed 139, making it the deadliest dam failure in the U.S. at the time.
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Page from Josiah Allen diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
author Josiah Allen (1814-1895) |
date May 17, 1874 |
location Wapping, Deerfield, Massachusetts |
width 6.5" |
height 7.75" |
process/materials manuscript, paper, ink |
item type Personal Documents/Diary |
accession # #L05.005 |
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