Mt. Moosilauke (1927) - The 1927 Flood
". . . The flood of November 3rd, 1927, did great damage in the north. The Landor Blake bridge on the main highway to Wentworth was carried away; also the Jewell bridge on the East Warren road, in fact practically all of the wooden bridges in town, including all of those on the Z.L. Clifford road went off. One of the abutments of the steel bridge on the side road near the center of the village was undermined so badly that it slumped down into the hole, though the bridge still rests upon it.
At the fish hatchery they lost the garage, woodshed with 18 cords of wood. All the wooden fish troughs out of doors were carried away and all of the fish escaped. Many of the wind-break pines are more or less uprooted and the fine lawn is covered inches deep with sand and loam. A curious feature about the loss of the fish is that they are finding their way back up the brook. Many hundreds have already been netted and returned to the cement tanks and there are hundreds more lurking in the pools of the brook that will also be recovered.
The most striking piece of destruction is on the Breezy Point Road. At the bridge where this road crosses it the river broke over the banks, both above and below the bridge, and ripped a new channel destroying the road completely nearly to the Eugene Whitcher place, and tearing a winding course through the fine meadow land, so that the river now runs across this farm, an eight of a mile or so from its former bed.
All this mess of sand, soil, mud and debris is spread over the fine fields of Eugene Whitcher's and C.G. Foote's farms. At Whitcher's the water surrounded the house; a hay barn collapsed and the other outbuildings were badly damaged and water logged. At the home of Frank and Martha Batchelder it carried away the ell of the house and shed, undermined the barn and tipped it into the new river bed.
In the village, Clarence Bowles lost 200 hens, drowned and water logged. George E. Brown had the hearse, an auto, a lot of sleighs and farming implements in his barn; one end of it was taken out and the sleighs and farming implements went, but the hearse and auto remained. Altogether it is estimated that a damage of $50,000 was sustained, and this is not including damage to the railroad which suffered wherever the water reached it. . . ."
From Marjorie S. Davis.
