I was trying to figure out why that name sounded familiar. I hadn't heard of the story you referenced. I'm also pretty sure I've never been near anywhere with that name, though I think I might have encountered a road with a similar one.

Eventually, I remembered a book my then 5yo gave me after it was withdrawn from the school library and offered as a "keep forever" book.

The book did tell an interesting story partially based on real life first person accounts of a famous storm / flood, but overall it was fictional. There were some details I thought were inappropriate. I don't know if those details (casual racism and acceptance of same, both by otherwise redeemable characters and by the victims of it; fairly graphic representation of bodily harm) match the reality of the time but, to put it bluntly, I agree with whomever made the decision to withdraw the book from a children's library.

(I'm not sure what age group has access to the library. I do think it's important for schools to allow access to uncomfortable facts, especially of history ... But again, my kid was five at the time, so presumably other similarly aged kids also had access and I don't think that they needed to hear these stories at that age.

My kid didn't read, nor appear to want to read, the book, but given that they get freaked out by my surgery scars I don't think that they would have benefited from doing so.)