Floyd County Flood 1940's

Picture of girls taken at Wayland Floyd Co., Kentucky, to the left is a building that was used long ago to store caskets, but at the time of this flood in the 1940's it was used to store row boats to rescue flood victims. Floods came often to Beaver Creek area  before the time of when the RR was built and at which time, the RR built flood walls.  The larger building in the back was the old movie house. My grandparents as well as my mother lived at Wayland when this flood pic was taken, my Mother recalls my grandmother telling her that her parents would have to move alot of the furniture upstairs, and somethings were on top of the dining room table when the floods would come.

Click on the thumb nail pictures to see a larger picture

Church of Christ, located between Glo & Estill

Estill

Church at Glo

Wayland, note the old  bridge to Glo on the left and men on the roof of the house.

Superintendant John Hampton of Glo Glory Mines lived in this house.

This is the fountain at          Wayland

Glo bridge on left and the house near it was owned by the Turner family, now owned by my uncle William Honshell, the white house on the hill was also owned by the Turners

The Turner family owned this house at the time of the flood, it is now owned by my uncle William Honshell. It is much larger now as William has added onto the house. Wayland

My great aunt Herma Daniels and Frances Muray pic was taken in Wayland May 1, 1927 after a flood. Notice the horse and buggy tracks on the dirt road.

"Individual records and photos may be copied and freely used by other researchers for their own private records, however, this entire file cannot be copied and/or published in its entirety or used anywhere else, in print or electronic form, without written permission from the copyright holder. "

BACK