The 100th anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood is this week. A section of the molasses tank after the disaster. This page provides resources for more information about Boston History, and the Flood. There is a plaque marking the location of the 1919 Molasses Flood that killed 21 persons and numerous horses. Staying inspired during the COVID-19 pandemic: Groups for inspiration and financial assistance options for photographers. It's a true and tragic story of a two million gallon steel tank filled with molasses. The source of what became known as the “Great Molasses Flood” was a 50-foot-tall steel holding tank located on Commercial Street in Boston’s North End. Boston, Massachusetts January 15, 1919.

Boston suffered one of history’s strangest disasters on January 15, 1919, whenthe Great Molasses flood tore through the city’s North End. The Great Boston Molasses Flood killed 21 people. Great Molasses Flood, disaster in Boston that occurred after a storage tank collapsed on January 15, 1919, sending more than two million gallons (eight million litres) of molasses flowing through the city’s North End. One Response to “Detailed Maps (Updated) from Boston’s Molasses Flood of 1919 – A brief video” GabrielMtn August 7, 2011 at 11:15 pm # This is a pretty awesome collection of resources:(Don’t worry, but it is a Microsoft word download. The disaster caused over $100 million of damage in today’s money. Site of the Boston Molasses Disaster (Google Maps). The Boston Molasses Flood was historic for several reasons. 5 questions you may have about Boston’s deadly Great Molasses Flood, answered "It was pretty bad when you get into the gruesome details." One hundred years later, analyses have pinpointed a handful of factors that combined to make the disaster so disastrous.

Great Molasses Flood Aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood in Boston, 1919.

Boston, Massachusetts January 15, 1919. The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Each postcode is assigned a risk of high, medium, low, or very low, and then plotted on a Boston flood map.

By now you’re aware that today marks 100 years since Boston’s Great Molasses Flood (or Molasses Disaster, or whatever you may call it). Molasses Flood Plaque. Mapping molasses. The molasses tank explosion sent steel plates right through the supports of the elevated train on Commercial Ave.