Fort Collins History Connection : Item Viewer

Larimer County Water Ways
a project of the Larimer County Digitization Initiative

back to results : previous : next

Flood at Russia Town


Title	Flood at Russia Town
Image ID Number	H02439
Date	1904 c.
Decade	1900s
Creator	John Coy, Fort Collins
Description	Flood at Russia Town, also called Buckingham Place. This is looking northwest toward the Great Western Sugar Factory. Buckingham Place was housing for the German-Russian beet workers and is located on Lincoln St. between Willow and Lemay. In 1904 the greatest flood in Fort Collins history occurred. A wall of water nearly 14 feet high burst through the Poudre Canyon, spreading out over the bottom land farms sweeping away everything movable. 15 bridges were wiped out as well as all irrigation head gates. Flood waters covered N. College to a depth of 5 feet, as 150 houses were swept off their foundations. Buckingham Place looking N.W.
Content Type	buildings
Historical Context	Sugar Beets 1900-1919
Subject	Floods--Colorado--Fort Collins--History Buckingham Place neighborhood (Fort Collins, Colo.) Cache la Poudre River (Colo.)--Floods
Image Source	Historical Collection
File Location	FC - Subjects - Natural Disasters - Floods
Language	English
Image Origin	Print; Glass Plate Negative
Digitization Format	HP ScanJet 6100C Scanner; Adobe 6.0; TIFF 800 dpi; JPEG 72 dpi; GIF 72 dpi
Collection Name	HistoricPhotographs
Web Exhibit	Waterways

back to results : previous : next

The Water Ways Photograph Database provides 1200 photographs associated with Larimer County water history.