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Huntington is often called a “City of Churches,” and nowhere is that more evident than
downtown Fifth Avenue, home to a half dozen congregations. Fifth Avenue Baptist, at far
right in this photograph, was right on the edge of the 1937 flood's reach. Even so, pumps
had to be employed to keep the water out of the church basement. For several days, the
church fed and sheltered neighboring residents who had been driven from their homes.
At Fourth Avenue and Fifteenth Street, just on the edge of Huntington's downtown and one
block from Marshall University (then Marshall College), small frame cottages were flooded
