A small marker near the North End waterfront remembers the 1919 Great Molasses Flood, when a storage tank burst and a wave of molasses tore through the neighborhood, killing 21 people and injuring scores more. The understated plaque marks one of Boston's strangest and deadliest industrial disasters.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Atlas Obscura