The Yardley Bridge.
The Great Flood of 1955 damaged the Yardley Bridge across
the Delaware River badly. But according to what I read on
the net, The Army Corps of Engineers fixed the structure
enough to last until the Scudders Falls Bridge was completed.
This picture is from 1960.
Did any part of the Burg flood in 1955? This was before my
time but maybe folks out there have memories of the Great
Flood of 1955.
8 comments:
Mack, my grandparents lived on Cliff St. near the river, I remember when things calmed down my dad took me to see how high it was, very scary, the water was pretty high up on the banks. I still remember that.
Myself and all my friends spent the night and the next morning with sand bags at the old filtration plant the foot of Calhoun Street. There were many volunteers, men and women of all ages helping that night.
I remember it
Ed
I remember the water coming all the way up Market St. to Broad and loss of the old Yardley Bridge.
I remember the water coming all the way up Market St. to Broad and loss of the old Yardley Bridge.
The Yardley Bridge was destroyed by the flood and never was repaired. It was torned down and never replaced. The year was 1955.
This is what D Randy Riggs who
lived in Yardley said about this
picture he took:
Here is a photo I took on July 18, 1960, looking north up the river at the Yardley Bridge. The photo is in somewhat rough shape. I was learning photography at the time, and shot it with an old WWII Kodak 35 with grainy Tri-X film. As you can see, the Yardley side of the bridge was the section built by the Army Corps of Engineers right after the flood. It was a Bailey bridge (a concept invented in 1941 for quick bridge replacement during wartime). It had a wooden deck and was in use until they opened the Scudder Falls bridge upstream about 1962. So many accounts of the flood-damaged bridge never mention this temporary replacement that served the community so well for seven years.
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Thats where I got this item
for the blog. As I was not
born I have no idea if it is
accurate. You may be right
Joe.
Parts of the river retaining wall fell into the river.
Mahlon Stacy PArk was loaded with stranded fish after the flood. It stunk really badly.
Water got up to S. Broad and Front Sts. I'm sure eit got to the Jewish Market district on Market Street below the County Court House. Assunpink Creek bed was badly flooded.
S. Warren St was flooded by Allstate Blueprint.
To the best of my knowledge, the Burg was spared except for bad drinking water.
I was 14 at the time of the flood and can recall standing on Warren Street looking South and seeing the river running pretty deep just South. I can remember boxes of picture tubes (RCA naturally) floating in the water from the NIDISCO Wholesale Electronic Store then located on South Warren. They then moved up to Princeton Avenue just below the point at Calhoun. I worked there one year after high school. Wes Stillwagon
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