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.

The anniversary of Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919 offers a bizarre, if grim, annual reminder of a freak accident in the city's North End. And one researcher suggests that looking back at ...

The infamous molasses flood in Boston was a tragedy like no other. On January 15, 1919, a giant tank in the North End collapsed, sending a wave of an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses ...

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No one ever thought that a tank holding two million gallon of molasses would burst changing their life forever. A true event based on the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919.

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 ...