On Memorial Day of 1889, western Pennsylvania was caught by a massive storm, unprecedented in the state's history. Heavy rains brought the South Fork dam above the city of Johnstown to the brink of ...

A museum in Pennsylvania that was built to commemorate the victims of a 19th century flood has been temporarily shut due to ...

Cambria County's Path of the Flood Trail has been named Pennsylvania's Trail of the Year for 2025, state officials said ...

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork ... dam's owners. The burst dam sent a wall of water and debris, 40 feet high and half a mile wide, 14 miles downstream to the bustling industrial city of Johnstown ...

“You cannot tell the story of the Johnstown Flood without talking about the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, Lake Conemaugh and what was the South Fork Dam,” Manley says. Remove the ads ...

A few miles away, Johnstown Flood National Memorial preserves the tale of that defining disaster while ... But when he saw the valley laid out below him and imagined 20 million tons of water churning ...

The 14-mile Path of the Flood Trail, completed in 2023, connects the ruins of the South Fork Dam near St. Michael to downtown Johnstown. It follows and commemorates the path of the 1889 Johnstown ...

The lake created by the South Fork Dam was threatening to breach its earthen barrier ... “With the valley crowding up the way it was,” wrote David McCullough in his book, The Johnstown Flood, “the ...