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 ...

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

will host a special Community Common Prayer Service commemorating the 130th anniversary of the 1889 Johnstown Flood and the role that St. Mark’s played during and in the aftermath of the flood.

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.

In this 20,000-person burg, where past and present are encouraged to rub elbows and revitalization reigns, commemorating the catastrophic 1889 flood with a community race seems entirely apropos.

“The Johnstown Flood Tax, as it's still known, somewhat misleadingly, was instituted in the aftermath of the 1936 flood by the state legislature. And the intent of the tax was to raise money to ...

It was the club’s earthen dam that broke May 31, 1889, the day of the Johnstown Flood ... would tell me tales about the aftermath of the flood,” he says. “Now this diamond in the rough ...

In May of 1889 over 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania died as ... and sets to depict the actual historic event of flood and its aftermath, pioneering complex techniques,” Harris explains.

After reading David McCullough’s book about the Johnstown flood of 1889, Farabaugh decided to continue the story by writing about the subsequent disasters in 1936 and 1977. But because of ...

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 ...