Before leaving town, I took a walking tour following a JAHA map that took me to the United Methodist Church on Franklin Street. It was one of the few buildings in Johnstown to survive the flood.

A massive storm pushed the South Fork Dam past its limit—and when it broke, a 40-foot wall of water roared down the valley, wiping Johnstown off the map.

The Great Flood of 1889 killed more than 2000 people, swept away 1600 homes, and caused $17 million in damage. And it wasn’t the last time Johnstown would flood. A lithograph of the 1889 ...

The second “great flood” to hit Johnstown, Pa., happened on July 20, 1977. It was, however, the third flood to devastate the town in Cambria County - the first in 1889 killed more than 2,000 ...

Today, 128 years after the flood, the legacy of this tragic event has not been forgotten. Visitors that want to learn more can visit the Johnstown Flood Museum and the Johnstown Flood National ...

Surrounded by his team Friday, Cambria County Conservation and Recreation Authority Executive Director Cliff Kitner proudly ...

But by far the most famous dam failure, and indeed one of the worst disasters in U.S. history, was the Johnstown flood of 1889. It is also a story with striking similarities to that of the Kaloko ...

PITTSBURGH – A privately owned dam collapsed in western Pennsylvania 125 years ago on May 31, 1889, unleashing a flood that killed 2,209 people. The terrible stories from the Johnstown Flood of ...

Her book is a novel based on the events surrounding the Johnstown flood in 1889. The flood claimed 2,200 lives after a dam burst on Memorial Day weekend. The book traces some of the complex social ...