Remembering Bethel's flood of 1953 and others

BETHEL — Parts of Bethel were flooded twice in 2023 from rain and also from the Androscoggin River. An April 2, 1953 a Bethel Citizen article tells a familiar story. The Androscoggin River, “went on its wildest rampage since 1936. Friday, following three days of rainfall. Rapidly rising waters forced families at Skillingston and above Mayville […]

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