EPISODE · Mar 18, 2025 · 13 MIN
The Great Molasses Flood
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It wasn't a fire or a flood, in a typical sense. But at 12:30 pm on January 15, 1919, a giant storage of vat at an industrial alcohol company on Commerical Street in Boston ruptured, spilling 2.5 million gallons of black molasses syrup across the city. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast LEARN MORE: www.historyshortspodcast.com READ THE NEWSLETTER: https://historyshorts.substack.com/
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