Use in the site biography and infrastructure timeline.
The event follows Prohibition recovery and preceded later plant rebuilding and modernization.
The Kentucky River flood of January 1937 submerged much of Frankfort and the low-lying George T. Stagg complex, making environmental risk part of the site’s institutional history.
PDF sheet 114
PDF sheet 114
Chapter 10 — The 1937 flood
Fresh full-copy audit, 2026-09-29. PDF113–114: flood gauge height is not depth everywhere;42quadrillion-gallon rainfall claim not independently verified. Two-day restart is secondary testimony, not inspected production log.
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