On October 10, 1903, the Delaware River crested after three days of torrential rain dumped 20 inches of water across the Upper Delaware region. The flood destroyed multiple bridges, obliterated sections of Erie Railroad track, and damaged homes and businesses across three states. The event earned its memorable name from the hundreds of pumpkins that witnesses watched bobbing down the swollen river, torn from their fields by the floodwaters—an image that burned into regional memory for decades. T