Stony Brook Flood occurs.

(Feb.) After three days of rain combined with melting snow the Stony Brook bursts from a culvert that ran from Ruggles Street to Columbus Avenue near todays 1300 Tremont Street. The largest flood in Boston in 77 years, it leaves three feet of water in an 63 -acre area bordered by Shawmut Avenue, Lenox Street, Tremont Street, and Roxbury Street, damages nearly 200 houses. and prompts the city to first build a channel from Roxbury Crossing to the Back Bay Fens in 1889, and then build a completely enclosed culvert beginning in 1910.*