Pwenner: A view of two railroad stations submerged during the 1936 Saint Patrick's Day flood from the third-floor apartment balcony of Mary and Joe Payne at 12 S. Maple Ave. In the foreground, onlookers can be seen standing at the foot of Maple Avenue. The 1936 flood is considered the worst in Brunswick's history. The Potomac River bridge sustained significant damage and was closed for a month for repairs, during which a ferry service was reinstated for the first time since the 1890s. Both the bridg...

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A view of two railroad stations submerged during the 1936 Saint Patrick's Day flood from the third-floor apartment balcony of Mary and Joe Payne at 12 S. Maple Ave. In the foreground, onlookers can be seen standing at the foot of Maple Avenue. The 1936 flood is considered the worst in Brunswick's history. The Potomac River bridge sustained significant damage and was closed for a month for repairs, during which a ferry service was reinstated for the first time since the 1890s. Both the bridg...

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== Summary ==
A view of two railroad stations submerged during the 1936 Saint Patrick's Day flood from the third-floor apartment balcony of Mary and Joe Payne at 12 S. Maple Ave. In the foreground, onlookers can be seen standing at the foot of Maple Avenue.

The 1936 flood is considered the worst in Brunswick's history. The Potomac River bridge sustained significant damage and was closed for a month for repairs, during which a ferry service was reinstated for the first time since the 1890s.

Both the bridges at Harper's Ferry and Point of Rocks were destroyed.
This situation prompted the decision to construct the more modern bridge, which was completed in 1955.

(Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger; flood/bridge information courtesy of the City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission)

[[Category:Smoketown Great Floods]]

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