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<br />13 <br /> <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Mr. B. L. Boyles, president of Longmont Museum, Inc., states (oral <br /> <br />communication, October 1962) that the present Burlington school was <br />not constructed until 1909, and that the Burlington school in 1894 <br />was located near what is now the intersection of Nelson Road and <br />U.S. Highway 287. A contemporary account of the flood is given in <br />the Longmont Ledger for June 1, 1894: <br />"*** yesterday morning. A pouring rain was falling and the <br />water rose rapidly and soon began to overflow its shallow banks <br />and spread over the bottom lands south of town. By the middle of <br />the forenoon, the entire valley from the railroad track to the <br /> <br />higher ground fully a mile to the south, was entirely covered to <br /> <br />a depth of several feet. Nearly all the farm houses on the river <br /> <br />bottoms were surrounded with water.*** Its equal has never been <br /> <br /> <br />equaled (sic) since Longmont was settled.*** At one time yesterday, <br /> <br /> <br />there were four or five inches of water in the basement of Longmont <br /> <br /> <br />Farmers Mill." <br />The estimate of "fully a mile to the south" strengthens the <br />belief that floodwaters from St. Vrain Creek did not extend to the <br />present site of Burlington school, but the phrase "to a depth of <br /> <br />several feet" probably contained a little journalistic license. <br /> <br /> <br />Mr. Jack Dickens, who was 6 years old .in 1894, stated (oral commu- <br /> <br /> <br />ication, October 2, 1962) that water surrounded, but did not get <br /> <br /> <br />into his home, which is still standing. The house is on a slight <br /> <br /> <br />eminence about 2 feet above the general level of the flood plain <br />