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!
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.