OLD PHOTO FRIDAY: Connoquenessing Creek Overflowing 1970’s

This week’s Old Photo Friday, courtesy of the Ellwood City Historical Society is a photo of Ellwood City’s Mckim Way flooded when the Connoquenessing Creek overflowed. Its banks rose to a three-foot level in some of the cottages, while outside water was waist high in some places. Homes and cottages were evacuated when water rose at a rapid pace and after it crested.

Do you remember the overflow of the Connoquenessing Creek? Did you or your family have to evacuate? Please share and comment your thoughts!

1 Comment on "OLD PHOTO FRIDAY: Connoquenessing Creek Overflowing 1970’s"

  1. Tracie Haswell | July 20, 2018 at 8:01 pm | Reply

    My Aunt Verna M. (Haswell) Hartman & Uncle Ernie Hartman (former police chief & the officer who used a Tommy Gun on some bank robbers) had a summer cottage on McKim Way… second one in… and it NEVER got flooded… omce it got up to the back door… but that was it.

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