Lifting up an Entire City With Jacks | Tales From the Bottle

Sadly not a story about history's strongest man, but lifting an entire city fourteen feet with jackscrews is still pretty interesting!
"During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago. Streets, sidewalks, and buildings were physically raised on jackscrews. The work was funded by private property owners and public funds."

More on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

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