Burlington Inn, Burlington, Conn B80

Burlington Inn, Burlington, Conn B80

Burlington Inn, Burlington, Conn B80 The photo shows an inn and restaurant on a corner property. The sign on the building advertises "Steaks, Chops and Seafood". There are several cars parked behind the building. Hurricane Connie blew through Connecticut on August 13, 1955, dropping between four and six inches of rain on the state. When the remnants of Hurricane Diane hit the state just five days later, the ground, already saturated, could not hold any more water. As much as twenty inches of rain fell over a 36-hour period from the morning of Thursday, August 18 into Friday, August 19. And on Friday, the floodwaters came. In Burlington, the flood led to the destruction of eleven bridges, including ones on Scoville Road, Milford Street, and Monce Road. The spillway of the New Britain Reservoir in Whigville was damaged. On Arch Street and in the area of town known as Wilkinsonville, on the banks of the Farmington River, sixteen homes were demolished or washed away entirely. Six more, including the Burlington Inn, were rendered unusable and had to be torn down. Two hundred town residents were left homeless. Luckily, Burlington was spared the fate of other area towns and suffered no fatalities.