Safe Crossing

ID: 498 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: 1936 Flood
Safe Crossing

A man wades through the waters at the entrance to the Waco Suspension Bridge. Though other bridges were shut down during the 1936 flood, officials deemed the Suspension Bridge safe to cross because it was suspended from either side of the river.

This file appears in: 1936 Flood

By Amanda Sawyer
Prior to local and federal efforts in the mid-twentieth century to control rivers through the construction of dams, the Brazos River routinely overflowed its banks. In 1913, the most violent flood to date overwhelmed East Waco, taking two lives and…