The members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were able to indulge their senses with the natural beauty of Pennsylvania ... in the evening of May 30th, 1889.

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 335 Locust St., Johnstown, will host a special Community Common Prayer Service commemorating the 130th anniversary of the 1889 Johnstown Flood and the role that St.

On Memorial Day 1889, a storm pushed Pennsylvania’s South Fork Dam past the breaking point. What followed was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history.

Yamila Audisio is an immigrant from Argentina who has developed a deep appreciation for Johnstown’s history. She has studied the Great Flood of 1889 that took the lives of more than 2,200 people. Her ...

Johnstown lies in a narrow valley at the junction of Stony Creek and the Little Conemaugh. At 3 p.m. on May 31, 1889, flood waters broke through the South Fork Dam, towering twelve miles away and ...

How a foot race helps one Pennsylvania town remember a historic tragedy ... commemorating the catastrophic 1889 flood with a community race seems entirely apropos. Johnstown has “had its time,” said ...

THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD 1926 re-creates one of the greatest disasters of the late 19th Century in the USA. In May of 1889 over 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania died as a result of the dam ...

Bosley was among several representatives of the five national parks of Western Pennsylvania ... earthen dam that broke May 31, 1889, the day of the Johnstown Flood. History shows club members ...

Johnstown is famous for its floods, but not many people know that it’s partly responsible for originating a hefty tax on all liquor in the state. “The Johnstown Flood Tax, as it's still known ...