The second “great flood” to hit Johnstown, Pa., happened on July 20, 1977. It was, however, the third flood to devastate the town in Cambria County - the first in 1889 killed more than 2,000 ...

The second "great flood" to hit Johnstown, Pa., happened on July 20, 1977. It was, however, the third flood to devastate the town in Cambria County - the first in 1889 killed more than 2,000 ...

The Johnstown Flood was a product of neglect ... killed around two dozen people, destroyed 77 buildings, and caused roughly $41 million in property damage. The 1977 flood, a result of severe ...

The 136th anniversary of the 1889 Flood will be recognized May 31. Flood National Memorial will commemorate the victims of the flood that occurred on May 31, 1889, when the South Fork Dam broke, ...

Later, in the summer of the following year, Carter was president of the United States, playing a role in helping Johnstown recover from the devastating 1977 Flood. That transformation – from unlikely ...

Some 12 inches of rain fell in 24 hours on the 19th and 20th, and the resulting flood claimed 84 lives and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in Johnstown and the surrounding areas.

The Johnstown Flood was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. The Johnstown Flood was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. It caused an unprecedented level of ...

“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 ...

Her book is a novel based on the events surrounding the Johnstown flood in 1889. The flood claimed 2,200 lives after a dam burst on Memorial Day weekend. The book traces some of the complex social ...