"They tell me that isn't right," Harding said. Judy
Ellinghausen, archivist at The History Museum in Great Falls,
agreed, calling such an account "unlikely." In all the reading
she has done on the 1908 flood, she has seen no references to
serious flooding in the center of town. Great Falls was not the
only community affected by the precipitation in June 1908. Lewis
and Clark County commissioners estimated the Helena area lost
$100,000 worth of its roads and bridges, while the Tribune
quoted a Fort Benton resident as saying the water had never been
as high in that historic town along the Missouri as it was in
1908. Great Falls still sports one clear public reference to the
Flood of 1908 — a plaque located on a railroad overpass pier
next to 6th Street North between Park Drive and River Drive
North. The plaque on the east pier shows the peak water level of
the June 1908 flood. Based on that high-water mark, floodwaters
would have intruded only a short distance into the Lower North
Side residential area. However