Johnstown eventually rebuilt ... between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia that was hewn by grit and ingenuity in the 1830s. Five days after the flood of 1889, 67-year-old Clara Barton arrived from ...
The in-depth story of the deadly 1889 Johnstown Flood caused by the Johnstown Dam Collapse. On Memorial Day of 1889, western ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mary Pickels Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 10:01 a.m. | Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 10:01 a.m. After returning home from an enlistment in the Civil War, Mt. Pleasant native Jesse Lippincott pursued interests in ...
On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a 40-foot wall of water. The bustling industrial city of Johnstown, PA, in the valley below was ...
When Jimmy Carter came to Johnstown in April 1976, as a presidential primary candidate, he held a press conference inside a Tribune-Democrat office that then-editor George Fattman described as being ...