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 ...

After reading David McCullough’s book about the Johnstown flood of 1889, Farabaugh decided to continue ... fatalities had a direct effect on the jobs in steel mills and coal mines.

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 ...

It has already eliminated more than 1,000 park service positions ... start at the Johnstown Flood National Memorial where an interpretive guide would tell them how, in May 1889, a collapsed ...

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.

It was the club’s earthen dam that broke May 31, 1889, the day of the Johnstown Flood. History shows club ... completion of an exterior paint job for the clubhouse, returning its original ...

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 ...