You might be familiar with the Boston Tea Party, but for many Bostonians, there’s another food-centric event that comes to mind as they reflect on local history: the Great Molasses Flood. When a surge ...
Into the Shadows on MSN
How one American company’s negligence ended in death
On January 15, 1919, Boston’s North End became the site of one of the most bizarre disasters in U.S. history. A massive steel tank owned by the Purity Distilling Company, holding 2.3 million gallons ...
On Jan. 15, 1919, a tank that contained more than 2 million gallons of molasses ruptured, killing 21 people and injuring more than 100 others. It destroyed buildings, killed animals and coated ...
That’s two nights in Boston, one in Freeport, two in Bar Harbor, two in the White Mountains, one in Stowe, one in Woodstock, ...
It's an idea so bizarre as to be unbelievable, a massive flood of molasses - in January - sweeping all before it, crushing buildings, engulfing people and horses, battering railway tracks. Yet it ...
BOSTON (WHDH) - A game creator is turning one of Boston’s most historic moments into a card game. Molassacre, Escape the Flood is all about the city’s Great Molasses Flood, when 2 million gallons of ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback