time capsule tuesday: flood & 1912 bball

May 17, 2011

Today’s Time Capsule Tuesday addition appeared on crothersville.net in 2004. If you know anyone in the first photo, feel free to share as a comment!

This is quite possibly one of the oldest photos available of a Crothersville Basketball Club. It was taken in 1912.

More than 9 inches of rain fell in Crothersville damaging roads and buildings forcing some residents to be evacuated from their homes. The school’s boiler room had more than 3 feet of water standing after this large rainfall, which was pumped out by the Crothersville – Vernon Township firefighters. The Fire Department is shown above blocking Main Street in Crothersville.

I have no clue what year this happened — if you know, please share with other readers…