When you think of historical disasters that reshaped American cities, visions of raging fires or violent earthquakes usually come to mind. There is one bizarre tragedy from New England's history that ...

Steve Puleo is the author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. On January 15, 1919, 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed, flooding Boston's North End with the sticky substance.

Usually food-related disasters take the form of viral diseases, but over a hundred years ago in Boston, molasses was the source of one of the most legendary disasters in American history. It's the ...

The children of North End, Boston, play in the shadow of an enormous steel tank of molasses. The thick, sticky sugar syrup is being used to make munitions for the First World War. When a worker ...

You might be familiar with the Boston Tea Party, but for many Bostonians, there's another food-centric event that comes to mind as they reflect on local history: the Great Molasses Flood. When a surge ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the bizarre and tragic 1919 industrial disaster that saw a lethal tide of dark syrup sweep through the streets of Boston's North End.

BOSTON — Slow as molasses? This treacle didn’t trickle. It was a sticky, deadly tsunami that flattened an entire Boston neighborhood within seconds. On Tuesday, the city marks the 100th anniversary of ...

A New Jersey man has created a card game based on Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919 designed to commemorate the disaster, but some local historians say it trivializes a tragic event that ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - A game creator is turning one of Boston’s most historic moments into a card game. Molassacre, Escape the Flood is all about the city’s Great Molasses Flood, when 2 million gallons of ...

It's only sugar. How dangerous could it be?