Top Level : History : Floods on the Illinois River

Floods on the Illinois River

High Water at Valley City High water Cast Iron Plaque 1943 High River at Boyd Button Factory Flood in Liverpool, Illinois Flood on the Illinois <B>Canoeing down the street</B> in the 1912 flood in Beardstown, Illinois High Water in Beardstown Soldiers Sandbagging the Levee The Park Hotel Main Street, Meredosia Meredosia Flood of 1913 Anderson Club House Flood at Electric Plant Meredosia Flood of 1943 Pump Plant Submerged Soldiers Building a Sand Bag Levee Flood at Browning High Water in Browning Cockol Burr Lake Train in High Water Chart showing floodwater levels in Havana, Illinois Thompson Lake West Havana, Flooded <B>Illinois River Flood</B> at Beardstown, Illinois, in April, 1922 on a street with residences, the Sanitary Bakery, and a barber shop. <B>New Bridge</B> at Beardstown, Illinois, 1955 <B>High water in Beardstown</B> in this undated photograph (possibly 1922). People are carrying poles to guide them through any deep spots in the water as they cross flooded roads. <B>High Water at the Nursery</B> at Beardstown in the 1922 Illinois River Flood <B>Flooded out resident</B> using his skiff and Mercury outboard to negotiate the flood waters near Beardstown, Illinois (undated) <B>Flooded Farmstead</B> near Beardstown, Illinois duirng a flood (undated) <B>Flooded Bridges</B> in Beardstown during an Illinois River flood (undated) <B>High Water</B> encroaching on a farm near Beardstown, Illinois (undated) <B>Reflections in the Floodwater</B> as the Illinois River rises onto the yard of this farm near Beardstown, Illinois <B>Frederick, Illinois Railroad Station Flooded </B> in this undated photograph <B>High Water</B> around greenhouses in Beardstown in 1913 <B>Holbrook's Confectionery</B> on State Street, Beardstown, Illinois during the 1912 flood <B>Street scene</B> in Beardstown during the 1912 flood Postcard photograph of a night scene of the business district of Beardstown, Illinois during the flood of 1922 <B>1913 Beardstown Flood</B> showing the O'Neal residence on Third Street surrounded by high water <B>Filling sand bags at the bridge</B> in Beardstown during a flood (undated) <B>Sandbagging at Beardstown</B> during a flood of the Illinois River (undated, possibly 1920s) <B>Gun Club surrounded</B><BR>Among the buildings surrounded by water in the flood, now receding, was the Treadway Rod and Gun Club quarters where Kenneth Bowman and family resided near Phelps Ditch in the Sangamon Valley. A horse took refuge on the small space of dry ground shown in this picture by Kenneth DeSollar. <B>High Water</B> in the Beardstown business district (undated) <B>Floating</B> at 7th and Edwards streets, Beardstown during a flood (undated) <B>Beardstown Waterfront</B> at high water (undated) <B>New Tressel Work Wiped Out</B> by flood on April 16, 1922. Note on photograph describes this location as where the dump wash out crosses the river. <B>High Water</B> encroaching upon a house and mobile home in this undated photograph. The homes have been built on eight-foot-tall foundations as a precaution against repeated flooding. <B>Rowing Down Main Street</B> in Beardstown, Illinois during a flood (undated). <B>Swept Away</B> Railroad workers survey the damage caused by raging flood waters of the Illinois near Beardstown. (circa 1913)

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