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.

“The Johnstown Flood was really the biggest single event ... “We have a light and sound animated map that shows the route of the flood, different exhibits. And, I guess, really, the most ...

Surrounded by his team Friday, Cambria County Conservation and Recreation Authority Executive Director Cliff Kitner proudly said that the Path of the Flood Trail is the No. 1 Pennsylvania Trail of the ...

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 ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — By the 1960s, interest in the 1889 Johnstown Flood was waning. Few survivors of the historic tragedy were still alive. Thanks to the installation of protective walls along ...

The Johnstown Flood was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. The Johnstown Flood was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. It caused an unprecedented level of ...

More than 2,200 people died, making the Johnstown Flood the worst single-day loss of civilian life in American history up to that point. It remains the worst dam failure the United States has ever ...