“You cannot tell the story of the Johnstown Flood without talking about the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, Lake Conemaugh and what was the South Fork Dam,” Manley says. Remove the ads ...

A few miles away, Johnstown Flood National Memorial preserves the tale of that ... laid out below him and imagined 20 million tons of water churning over the South Fork Dam and barreling toward town, ...

On Memorial Day 1889, 133 miles northwest of Frederick, the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River in Pennsylvania ...

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 ...

So when the South Fork Dam failed on May 31 ... Burkert, as a resident of Johnstown for 40 years who redid the Johnstown Flood Museum, said he was able to use his expertise on the topic to ...

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 ...