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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Little Conemaugh River. Coordinates: 40.40728°N 78.65369°W. The Little Conemaugh River runs through a channel in Johnstown, just a few hundred feet from where its confluence with the Stonycreek River forms the Conemaugh. The Little Conemaugh River is a tributary of the Conemaugh River, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long, in western ...
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service. [2] [3] Established in 1964 [4] through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, [5] [6] it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood, who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.
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.
Johnstown is the largest city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. [6] The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 census. Located 57 miles (92 km) east of Pittsburgh, it is the principal city of the Johnstown metropolitan area, which is located in Cambria County and had 133,472 residents in 2020. [7]