Throughout the hurricane, the Coast Guard worked tirelessly to provide aid to countless displaced residents. Entire communities were leveled by the hurricane’s powerful winds and waves. After the storm subsided and the destruction was evident, the enormous task of rebuilding began. The historic images in The 1938 Hurricane along New England’s Coast document the hurricane’s destruction and the ways in which victims who were uprooted by the storm united to rebuild their communities.
Background Information
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams and other refugees from religious intolerance in Massachusetts. Long Island, a product of the last Ice Age, is largely rural in the east but part of America's largest city in the west.