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 ...

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.

FARGO — Flood ... On May 31, 1889, an 11-inch rain following an already wet spring led to the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam located 14 miles up a narrow canyon from Johnstown ...

Why it was picked The trail takes visitors along the path of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, starting at the site of the former South Fork Dam and continuing through the Conemaugh Valley to the Stone ...

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 ...

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 ...