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Founder Alexander H. Creel named St. Mary's, the county seat of Pleasants County, West
Virginia, in honor of the Virgin Mary. Creel said Mary appeared to him in a vision one
night as the steamboat on which he was traveling passed the point where he afterward es-
tablished the town. Here a curious crowd checks out the high water during the 1907 flood.
Note the women in white standing in the doorway of the Manhattan Restaurant.
Portsmouth, Ohio, was inundated by the 1907 flood, but on Sunday, March 17, the cold
weather broke, and the temperature reached a balmy 70 degrees. According to a contem-
