The Storm of 1869: Conway, Massachusetts
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 16, "Storms" Disaster struck my great-great-grandparents' town in the fall of 1869, when a storm hit the east coast from New England to Virginia. The U.S. Geological Survey later called it “the greatest storm both in extent and intensity … in New England” in a hundred years. [1] From October 2-5 over 7 inches of rain fell in Southwest Massachusetts and New York. There was widespread damage all over New England, [2] and Conway was hit hard. When