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Start Over Collection Connecticut Flood Recovery Committee records, 1955-1956

1955 August-1955 October Box 3

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1955 November-1956 January Box 4

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1. General file, 1955 August-1956 January

Contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, reference materials, newspaper clippings, notes and memoranda pertaining to the flood damage, the work of the Committee and its recommendations.

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Aid to flood victims Box 1

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Connecticut Development Commission Box 2

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Connecticut Flood Recovery Committee records, 1955-1956 2.5 cubic feet

Following the disastrous flood of August 19, 1955, called the "worst flood in the history of eastern United States," Governor Abraham Ribicoff appointed a twenty-member committee to study the immediate problems to be faced and to recommend a program of rehabilitation.

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