The Great Molasses Flood of 1919: The Day Boston Drowned in Syrup
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919: The Day Boston Drowned in Syrup In January 1919, a wall of molasses 15 feet high tore through a city street at 35 miles per hour. It sounds absurd. It was horrifying. This is the great molasses flood. History is full of disasters that defy imagination. Plagues, fires, floods,…