Cameron Park's High Waters Deliver Dinner

ID: 1312 ~ Source: Curre Jr., Frank and Dororthy Head Powell, interviewed by Mark Firmin, January 28, 2009, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
This file appears in: 1936 Flood

Frank Curre Jr. speaks of how high the water was in Cameron Park, as well as how the flood damages brought him dinner.

This file appears in: 1936 Flood

By Amanda Sawyer
Prior to local and federal efforts in the mid-twentieth century to control rivers through the construction of dams, the Brazos River routinely overflowed its banks. In 1913, the most violent flood to…