Five years out from the Floods of 2010

Parris Brook overruns Old Voluntown Rd - March 2010.
Photo: Sheila Reynolds Boothroyd

Remember scenes like this? How could we forget!

It's been 5 years since the historic Floods of 2010 inundated Exeter and all of Rhode Island. As we slowly break Winter's chill and watch 2015's record snowfall melt away, we find ourselves looking back on that record rainfall, and reminding ourselves that perhaps this year's weather phenomenon wasn't really so bad after all!

EHA Vice-President Gary Boden offers some perspective:

Remembering the Floods of 2010

Civilian Conservation Corps in Exeter, Part II: Overlook Shelter

In April 2014, we posted an article about work buildings and encampments from the 1930's in the western half of Exeter. They were built by  the Civilian Conservation Corps, a national program aimed at bringing jobs to an economy  devastated by the Great Depression.

  

Here's another article written by Exeter Historical Association Vice President Gary Boden about one particular CCC building at Escoheag Hill: the Overlook Shelter. We're posting this piece on another snowy day of a colossally snowy winter as we anticipate a Spring day just around the bend when we can visit this structure.

 

 

 

Click on the link below to read the article

Buildings of the CCC: Overlook Shelter

 

Overlook Shelter, circa 1935