Flood kills trailer park plan I was working as a carpenter for Ouellet Construction, that spring. We were building the new Madison High School. In the forenoon, the power went out and the foremen sent us all home. He didn't want anyone to get caught with bridges out on the way home. One good thing came of the flood. Stanley Ames of Skowhegan had a land use plan pending in Madison. He wanted to build a huge trailer park between Jones Street and Upper Main Street. The citizens were having a hard time to convince the Planning Board that that was not a good location. When the flood came, it put half the area planned for a trailer park under six to eight feet of water. Needless to say; the project was reduced by half ... to the higher ground.

Pete Sirois

Madison