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Topic: The 1870 Flood in the Shenandoah Valley
Speaker: Paula Green
The historic 1870 flood left a trail of damage and loss throughout Shenandoah Valley. Join historian Paula Green to learn more about the way the flood shaped communities here and throughout Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Green will use historic depictions and primary source accounts to examine the flood along the Shenandoah River with extra attention devoted to the flood in Rockingham & Page County. Additionally, this talk will pull in the archaeological work that the ASV’s Massanutten Chapter completed at White House Farm in Page County between 2012-2015, along with highlighting the importance of locating the flood level in the archaeological record.
Paula Green is the author of “The Great Virginia Flood of 1870.” She has degrees in Anthropology and Public History from James Madison University (BS 2003, MA 2015) and is currently working on her PhD in History at George Mason University.
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