The History and Heritage Podcast

Tsunami of Syrup: The 1919 Boston Molasses Catastrophe

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A shocking urban disaster where a massive molasses tank burst in Boston's North End on January 15, 1919, killing 21 and injuring 150 in a sticky, devastating wave.

Sources
  1. "Boston's Great Molasses Flood | Boston Public Library"
  2. "The Great Molasses Flood: Labor and the Molasses Flood" (GBH Forum Network)
  3. "Great Molasses Flood at 100: How Boston Disaster Made Us Safer" (TIME)
  4. "The Great Molasses Flood"
  5. "Boston Molasses Flood: The Strangest Disaster in American History" (Geographics)
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    The History and Heritage PodcastBy Liam Blake