On Memorial Day 1889, a neglected dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania gave way after days of heavy rain, unleashing 14 million tons of water onto the town below. The flood swept away entire ...

A failed dam, a mountain of water, and a town erased in minutes—this is the devastating true story of the 1889 Johnstown Flood.

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 ...

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 members did not replace draining pipes that had been removed, and screens they installed ...

Through an array of personal items, the stories of Johnstown’s three floods are being told. The “Relic Tales of the Johnstown Floods” exhibition is on display through the fall on the second floor of ...

DOVER – To commemorate the 136th anniversary of the historic 1889 Johnstown Flood, the Dover Public Library will offer "Water and Steel: The Legacy of the Johnstown Flood,” a five-part series ...

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 ...

The Ghost Town Trail was named trail of the year in 2020, and the Path of the Flood Trail, a 14-mile trail tracing the historic route of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, was awarded the distinction this ...

The "Relic Tales of the Johnstown Floods" exhibition is on display through the fall on the second floor of the Heritage ...