Stonington from water showing Hancox Street to Borough School

Archive

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Stonington from water showing Hancox Street to Borough School

Entry/Object ID

2002.0613.063

Scope and Content

Postcard of Stonington from water showing Hancox Street to Borough School. Notes on front, back and slip of paper: Wall St. 14 houses swept away hurrican 1938; Showing Wall St. where 14 houses swept away by 2 tidal waves (I saw them from my home the Anchorage) 1938 hurricane, extreme right Boro School and home of Eugene Atwood of At. Mach. Co.; View looking No. from the Bay showing 14 houses on Wall St. (Shinbone Alley) which were swept away in Hurricane of 1938 with loss of lives - SHS [boro school] in background. Copy on slide 11-3 taken by Ingrid Fedderson, 1991 Index card done by Jack Fix

Collection

Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection