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Saturday marked the 136th anniversary of the Great Johnstown Flood, and members of the Johnstown Flood National Memorial ...
Grace Manack, 9, her mother Rachel Manack, and grandmother Nancy Felix, along with other volunteers, spent time on a windy, ...
was present at the Johnstown Flood National Memorial last week. John Bosley survived the city’s great disaster that occurred 133 years ago on May 31, 1889. Dressed in period clothes, Doug Bosley ...
The 136th anniversary of the 1889 Flood will be recognized Saturday. Flood National Memorial will commemorate the victims of the flood that occurred on May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam broke, ...
SOUTH FORK -- Wednesday marks the 128th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. More than 2,200 people lost their lives in the flood when the South Fork Dam gave way and flooded the city.
we continue to look back on the events leading up to the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. Lake Conemaugh continued to swell for hours after the rain stopped, due to the runoff from the nearby rivers ...
As residents prepared for Memorial Day 1889, little could they have imagined the violence on the horizon. (funky upbeat music) The disaster known as the Johnstown Flood was decades in the making.
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 ...
"They would be cousins of mine," Koenigsberg said. The Costlows died during the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam broke, sending a churning wall of water through the Little ...
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.