Connecticut River Valley Flood Of 1936 by Joshua Shanley

Author:Joshua Shanley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2021-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

The original stretch of the Mill River in Northampton underwent a major diversion by the USACE to avoid future flooding. Forbes Library.

Construction on the Calvin Coolidge Bridge started in November 1937 and was completed in January 1939 at a cost of nearly $1.2 million, half of which was funded from the New Deal Public Works Administration and using WPA workers. The five spans totaled over 1,440 feet in length and were over 50 feet wide. Named after Calvin Coolidge, a former mayor of Northampton, the bridge was designed with an Art Deco flair and was adorned with eagles carved into the granite pylons and bronze access doors and lit with state-of-the art sodium lamp fixtures developed by General Electric. Like other communities in the valley, Northampton was impacted by flooding from the Connecticut on one front, which was clogged with ice and rose slowly and steadily, and the Mill River tributary, which was raging from weeks of heavy rain coming out of the hill towns.

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