Usually food-related disasters take the form of viral diseases, but over a hundred years ago in Boston, molasses was the source of one of the most legendary disasters in American history. It's the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Courtesy of Dark Tide / Boston Fire Department archives You might be familiar with the Boston Tea Party, but for many Bostonians, ...

Steve Puleo is the author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. On January 15, 1919, 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed, flooding Boston's North End with the sticky substance.

BOSTON (AP) — The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 — one of Boston’s most peculiar disasters — killed 21 people, injured 150 others and flattened buildings when a giant storage tank ruptured. Now Harvard ...

Only few will read this in full with prior knowledge of the event, but last month was the 107th anniversary of the Jan. 15, 1919, molasses flood in the North End, by a company importing to their East ...

The children of North End, Boston, play in the shadow of an enormous steel tank of molasses. The thick, sticky sugar syrup is being used to make munitions for the First World War. When a worker ...

A New Jersey man has created a card game based on Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919 designed to commemorate the disaster, but some local historians say it trivializes a tragic event that ...

ANNIVERSARY IN BOSTON. NONE OF US ACTUALLY LIVED THROUGH THE ORIGINAL EVENT, BUT MANY BOSTONIANS STILL KNOW THE HISTORY. ON THIS DAY IN 1919, A MOLASSES FLOOD DEVASTATED PARTS OF THE CITY’S NORTH END.

You might be familiar with the Boston Tea Party, but for many Bostonians, there's another food-centric event that comes to mind as they reflect on local history: the Great Molasses Flood. When a surge ...