So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the disastrous 1936 flood ... At 3 p.m. on May 31, 1889, flood waters broke through the South Fork Dam, towering twelve miles away and 300 ft.

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 ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Johnstown Flood National ... The official death toll was set at 2,209 from the flood on May 31, 1889. The program provides a rare opportunity to view and learn ...

“The Johnstown Flood Tax, as it's still known, somewhat misleadingly, was instituted in the aftermath of the 1936 flood by the state legislature. And the intent of the tax was to raise money to ...

Yamila Audisio is an immigrant from Argentina who has developed a deep appreciation for Johnstown’s history. She has studied the Great Flood of 1889 that took the lives of more than 2,200 people. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...