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Johnstown's flood legacy: Liquor tax origins spark new ideas to help struggling cities
Johnstown is famous for its floods, but not many people know that it’s partly responsible for originating a hefty tax on all ...
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John Wheeler: Johnstown flood of 1889 changed the legal interpretation of liability
FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably a combination of natural "Acts of God" and engineering failures. On May 31, 1889, an 11-inch rain following an already wet spring led to the ...
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Toronto Silent Film Festival: The Johnstown Flood
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 ...
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National Park Service's $1.2M project preserving Johnstown Flood history
Mary Pickels Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 10:01 a.m. | Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 10:01 a.m. After returning home from an enlistment in the Civil War, Mt. Pleasant native Jesse Lippincott pursued interests in ...
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1889 Johnstown Flood commemorated
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 ...