The Flood's Legacy
Around Ohio today, there is still evidence of the 1913 flood in occasional historical markers, such as those between Cleveland and Akron on the bicycle path along the remains of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The most important and lasting monuments to the flood are five innovative mammoth earthen dams around the Miami Valley built to protect Dayton and other towns from any such flood ever again. Designed and built by the Miami Conservancy District, which was organized in 1915 (its name introducing the...