A post June 1972 photograph of the rebuilding of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Photo Caption: Connell Trailer Park on South Second Street, Lykens.
Without the help of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Government, the hardships which the people of Lykens suffered following the flood, would have been insurmountable.
The Army Corps of Engineers were on the scene in Lykens within a short time to help in the restoration projects and at several contracts to private contractors to do much of the repairing of streets and the developing of a temporary trailer park.
The Small Business Administration opened a disaster loan office in the former Miller Furniture Store on Second Street in Harrisburg and also had a temporary office in the Upper Dauphin Area Junior High School in Lykens.
These offices were set up to handle the disaster loan applications of those individuals and businesses that suffered flood damage.
The United States Congress pushed legislation reducing the Disaster Loan interest rate to 1% and increasing the amount of loan forgiveness from $2,500 to $5,000.
This financial assistance made it possible for persons who would otherwise not have been able to do so, to repair their homes and businesses.
The Housing and Urban development branch of the Federal Government made available mobile homes for those persons whose home were destroyed or badly damaged in the flood.
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From “Collector’s Limited Edition” of Lykens and Williams Valley Flood of 1972, published by the Lykens Standard, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in June 1972.
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