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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 Flood that killed more than ...
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.
A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. 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), an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Little Conemaugh River is a tributary of the Conemaugh River, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long, in western Pennsylvania in the United States . The main branch rises in eastern Cambria County, along the western slope of the Appalachian ridge separating the watersheds of the Ohio and Susquehanna rivers. It flows west-southwest through the ...
Holtwood Dam, Lake Aldred, Pennsylvania Power and Light. Kinzua Dam, Allegheny Reservoir, USACE. Lake Arthur Dam, Lake Arthur, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Laurel Creek Dam, Municipal Authority of the Borough of Lewistown. Laurel Run Dam, Laurel Run Reservoir, Johnstown Water Authority (failed) Letterkenny Dam, Letterkenny Reservoir on the ...
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]
92000941 [1] Added to NRHP. August 7, 1992. Downtown Johnstown Historic District is a national historic district located at Johnstown in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 109 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Johnstown.
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.