From January 1 through early March 1904, the city of Bradford was inundated with heavy flood waters three times.

On Saturday and Sunday, January 23 and 24, the North Street Bridge was placed out of commission by flood waters.

"The ice and water smashing the supports and breaking the east end clear of its fastening... Street car traffic over the 

trolley bridge spanning Kendall Creek, on the Melvin farm, was entirely suspended, in consequence of the underpinning 

of the structure having been broken by the gorged ice."

     On March 4, after 86 hours of heavy rain, the ice gorged near the Arcade and was "flowing down Boylston Street, partially 

covering Pine and intermediate streets. Subsequent gorges at the head of Bishop Street, near the Kennedy Street bridge and 

the B.R. & P. bridge, occasioned other overflows, and Forman, Amm, Miller, Florence, and portions of Davis, Kennedy, 

Bishop, Boylston and Main Streets, were in the throes of a flood."

     These flood waters took a steep toll on the ten miles of Bradford Electric Street Railway Company tracks throughout the city. 

C.E. Hudson, the Treasurer and General Manager of the corporation headquartered at 1 Main Street, had little money or sense 

of urgency to make necessary repairs, but Mayor George H. Potter wanted action.

     Mayor Potter commissioned local photographer Frank Robbins to document track damage throughout the city. The Mayor used 

these photos to get a resolution passed at a March 28, 1904, Session meeting "instructing the Mayor and City Clerk to notify the 

Bradford Electric Street Railway Company to pave its portions of East Main Street, between Kendall Avenue and the city line."

                                       -Taken from the Bradford Area Public Library Newsletter, Summer 2013