Before leaving town, I took a walking tour following a JAHA map that took me to the United Methodist Church on Franklin Street. It was one of the few buildings in Johnstown to survive the flood.

The Great Flood of 1889 killed more than 2000 people, swept away 1600 homes, and caused $17 million in damage. And it wasn’t the last time Johnstown would flood. A lithograph of the 1889 ...

A massive storm pushed the South Fork Dam past its limit—and when it broke, a 40-foot wall of water roared down the valley, wiping Johnstown off the map.

“The Johnstown Flood was really the biggest single event ... “We have a light and sound animated map that shows the route of the flood, different exhibits. And, I guess, really, the most ...

Grace Manack, 9, her mother Rachel Manack, and grandmother Nancy Felix, along with other volunteers, spent time on a windy, ...

Johnstown suffered another devastating flood ... country that are happening in places that are above what the old flood maps showed were flood lines,” Coleman says. “People are seeing floods ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — By the 1960s, interest in the 1889 Johnstown Flood was waning. Few survivors of the historic tragedy were still alive. Thanks to the installation of protective walls along ...

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 spirit of John Bosley, channeled through his great-great-grandson Doug Bosley, was present at the Johnstown Flood National Memorial last week. John Bosley survived the city’s great disaster ...