Local history: One-fifth of city under water in '73 flood | Chattanooga Times Free Press

Local residents still tell stories about the week in 1973 when the rain kept falling and the waters kept rising. Photographs prove those stories were not exaggerations but a "high water" mark in Chattanooga history.

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