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Flood Memorial Monument

An obelisk commemorates historic floods that hit two towns along the Red River of the North.

Grand Forks, North Dakota

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The monument displays the high water mark from several historic floods.   T0pseeder / Atlas Obscura User
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The devistating 1997 Red River Flood caused the evacuation of Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.  Residents fled the two border towns as the river that divides them topped the dikes on April 18, 1997.

Two days later, a fire destroyed a large portion of downtown Grand Forks. Firefighters could not fight the blaze due to low water pressure, and aerial firefighters made slurry drops from aircraft to extinguish the fires.  

The monument was erected to commemorate the trauma that the community endured during the spring of 1997.

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