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 ...

The verse from the Song of Solomon is a perpetual reminder of the Locust Street church’s role in the 1889 Johnstown Flood and its aftermath. “I think that we here at St. Mark’s take that ...

"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 ...

According to Willis Johnson, author of the 1889 History of the Johnstown Flood, “General Hastings came here right after the flood, on the spur of the moment, and not in his official capacity.

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.

Lives Lost: 2209 Affected area: Johnstown, Pennsylvania The Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 happened due to the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam. 14 miles upstream from Johnstown ...

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 ...

After reading David McCullough’s book about the Johnstown flood of 1889, Farabaugh decided to continue the story by writing about the subsequent disasters in 1936 and 1977. But because of ...

A disaster in Johnstown, Pennsylvania stunted a town and changed a nation. Late in May, 1889, rain was falling an inch per hour ... was,” wrote David McCullough in his book, The Johnstown Flood, “the ...

was a fixture in the Morley family yard until 1889, when it was swept away in a flood that killed 2,209 people. It was recovered, and has been on display in downtown Johnstown for a long time ...