New England Blizzard Brings Back Memories of 1912

The recent New England Blizzard, which dumped as much as three feet of snow on New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, brings back memories of the winter of 1912, which hit Grant City hard in March.
This picture was taken by N.A. Combs on March 16, 1912 north of the Larry Kimble home near Irena and just south of Redding. The snow was so deep that it took 20 people with tractors and snowplows and shovels to clear the railroad of snow so that the train could get through.
That particular blizzard was so bad that there was no mail service to Grant City for several days.
The blizzard in New England killed at least four people and completely shut down the economy there. The Governor of Massachusetts ordered all citizens to stay off the roads at one point.
That was not the only time that year that extreme winter hit Grant City. The Midwest Regional Climate Center, which keeps weather records back to 1904 for Grant City, shows Grant City was hit with a record of 29 below zero on January 12th, 1912. The latter temperature was part of a great cold wave that hit much of the country in January and February of that year.