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Yamila Audisio is an immigrant from Argentina who has developed a deep appreciation for Johnstown’s history. She has studied ...
So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the ... U.S. history was that of 1889, which killed 2,300 of Johnstown’s 30,000 people and all but washed the town from the map. Johnstown lies in ...
The members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were able to indulge their senses with the natural beauty of Pennsylvania’s heartland until the storms came in the evening of May 30th, 1889.
On Memorial Day 1889, a neglected dam failed under the weight of a brutal storm—what followed was a 40-foot wall of ...
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 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 ...