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Like the other buildings along Winchester Avenue, the U.S. Post Office on Winchester Aven-
ue was encircled by the 1937 floodwaters. Today the classic old structure is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. Since 2000, it has housed the offices and bookstore of
the Jesse Stuart Foundation, “devoted to preserving the human and literary legacy of Jesse
Stuart and other Kentucky and Appalachian writers.” (Courtesy Charles R. Nichols.)
This was the 1937 flood scene looking north from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway pas-
senger station in Ashland. The station itself escaped flooding, as did the C&O's Sixth Street
shops and roundhouse, but the railroad's freight yard and some stretches of its main line
