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When the 1937 floodwaters reached the American Rolling Mills (ARMCO) plant, the giant
steel maker was forced to suspend operations, idling 3,200 workers. Today the company,
long a major employer in Ashland, is part of AK Steel. The 1937 flood also disrupted work
at the coke plant operated by Allied Chemical and Dye's Semet Solvay Division and the
Ashland Oil and Refining Company refinery in Catlettsburg. (Courtesy U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.)
Once the floodwaters receded, Boyd County health officials warned that residents could not
return to their flooded homes until the dwellings had been inspected and approved. Officials
also urged all citizens to get typhoid inoculations. When their classes resumed, youngsters
such as these at this Ashland school were inoculated.
