When Sweet Turned Deadly: The Great Boston Molasses Flood

On a sultry January afternoon in 1919, the unthinkable occurred in Boston's North End. A massive reservoir overflowing with delicious molasses ruptured with a roar, unleashing a tidal wave thick, brown liquid that consumed the streets below. Hundreds of people met their fate in the catastrophic flood, crushed by the unexpected force of the molasses

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