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Added to NRHP. July 31, 1986. The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania corporation that operated an exclusive and secretive retreat at a mountain lake near South Fork, Pennsylvania, for more than 50 extremely wealthy men and their families. The club owned the South Fork Dam, which failed on May 31, 1889, causing the Johnstown ...
Johnstown. 16. Johnstown Flood National Memorial. Johnstown Flood National Memorial. More images. October 15, 1966. ( #66000656) Junction of U.S. Route 219 and Pennsylvania Route 869, St. Michael-Sidman. 40°20′46″N 78°46′14″W.
The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. The dam ruptured after several days of ...
The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer ), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States. On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam failed catastrophically and 20 million tons of water from Lake Conemaugh ...
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites.
95000522 [1] Added to NRHP. April 27, 1995. Minersville Historic District is a national historic district located at Johnstown in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] The district is a working-class neighborhood of privately and company built housing running along the north side of the Conemaugh River. [4]
www .co .cambria .pa .us. Pennsylvania Historical Marker. Designated. May 25, 1982 [1] Cambria Iron Company, Johnstown, 1987. Cambria County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 133,472. [2] Its county seat is Ebensburg. [3]
South Fork is located in south-central Cambria County at 40°21′54″N 78°47′26″W (40.365042, -78.790474), [6] in the valley of the Little Conemaugh River at the confluence of its South Fork. U.S. Route 219, a four-lane expressway, passes just east of the borough and leads 10 miles (16 km) north to Ebensburg, the Cambria County seat.