A few miles away, Johnstown Flood National Memorial preserves the tale of that defining ... He’d read David McCullough’s book about the tragedy and run pieces of the flood path as part of his military ...

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 ...

The book investigates various threads of the ... whose members have roots in the region predating the great Johnstown Flood, yet having never shared the story. McDevitt first learned of the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Joe Napsha Saturday, June 5, 2021 8:00 a.m. | Saturday, June 5, 2021 8:00 a.m. What do “three men from Greensburg” have to do with a small-time Johnstown gambler whose body was found floating ...

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 ...