Boston molasses flood conversw8/31/2023 ![]() Then, balked by the staunch brick walls of the houses at the foot of the hill, the death-dealing mass swept back towards the water. Swirling back it sucked a modest frame dwelling from where it nestled beside the three-story brick tenements and threw it, a mass of wreckage, under the "L" structure. Thirty feet high, it smashed against tenements on the edge of Copp's Hill. Across the street, down the street, it rolled like a two-sided breaker at the seashore. It smote the huge steel girders of the "L" structure and bent, twisted, and snapped them, as if by the smash of a giant's fist. ![]() Dead horses, cats, and dogs have been carted away in team after team….Ī rumble, a hisssome say a boom and a swishand the wave of molasses swept out. More than 50 injured were in hospitals and at their homes. Using Mass Moments in Third Grade ClassroomsĪ 50-foot wave of molasses≲,300,000 gallons of itreleased in some manner yet unexplained, from a giant tank, swept over Commercial street and its waterfront from Charter street to the southerly end of North End park yesterday afternoon.Įnsnaring in its sticky flood more than 100 men, women, and children crushing buildings, teams, automobiles, and street carseverything in its paththe black, reeking mass slapped against the side of the buildings footing Copp's Hill and then swished back toward the harbor.Įleven personsa woman, a girl, and nine menwere the known dead at midnight.Lesson C: A Young Colony Faces Challenges.Activity 4: How the Puritans Celebrated Christmas.Activity 2: High Cost of Following Other Religious Beliefs.Activity 1: The Puritans’ Promise to God.Lesson B: Religious Intolerance in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.Activity 1: Creating Big Maps Showing Early Towns.Lesson A: The First English Settlements in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.E/MS Unit II: Building a New Society: Life in Colonial Massachusetts.William Apess Presents a Different Point of View Lesson D: William Apess and the “Mashpee Revolt”.Activity 2: The Fate of Indian “Praying Towns”.Activity 1: Accounts of King Philip’s War.Activity 2: Establishing "Praying Towns" and Educating Indian Youth.Activity 1: Examining the Puritans’ Goals in Relation to Native Peoples.Activity 5: Creative Extension - County Maps.Activity 4: Examining Historic Maps for Information. ![]()
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