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Monongahela River from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the Monongahela and Allegheny
Rivers join to form the Ohio River. Thus, strictly speaking, this is not an Ohio River flood
scene. Nonetheless, it is a good example of how swollen tributaries add to the Ohio's flood-
waters.
This second view from the 1907 flood in McKeesport shows the same two houses as the
earlier card but looks along Fourth Avenue, showing some of the street's other flooded
houses and buildings. Settled in 1795 and named in honor of John McKee, its founder,
McKeesport in the 1930s was home to more than 50,000 people. Today its population is less
than half that, a decrease attributable to the decline of the region's steel industry.
