Johnstown is famous for its floods, but not many people know that it’s partly responsible for originating a hefty tax on all ...

The way John McKnight tells it, he nearly died one day when he was 16. The day was July 19, 1977. A deluge of rain hit the Johnstown area during the night. Nearly 12 inches of rain fell in 24 hours ...

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 ...

It was the club’s earthen dam that broke May 31, 1889, the day of the Johnstown Flood. History shows club members did not replace draining pipes that had been removed, and screens they installed ...

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 ...

FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably a combination ... of the South Fork Dam located 14 miles up a narrow canyon from Johnstown, Pa. The water over topped the dam, which rapidly eroded ...

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 ...