I was a senior living in a house at Mill & Elliot Sts during that flood of 1963. National Guard trucks took us from our house in 5' flood water to higher campus grounds in the mornings and then brought us back to our beloved house in the evenings. That old house still stands in 2023.
Another great article! I plan to visit Athens in the near future and would like to see the effects of ‘rerouting of the river’.
I was a senior living in a house at Mill & Elliot Sts during that flood of 1963. National Guard trucks took us from our house in 5' flood water to higher campus grounds in the mornings and then brought us back to our beloved house in the evenings. That old house still stands in 2023.