This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Look Back After the Floods in Johnstown
A 1973 banquet recalls the 1889 disaster that killed 2209 people when the South Fork dam broke. Survivor Elsie Frum, aged 6, remembers fleeing to higher ground as bodies were recovered. The Johnstown Flood Museum preserves the history alongside later floods in 1936 and 1977.
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Johnstown, Pa
Elsie Frum
Johnstown
Frum
Conemaugh
Pittsburgh
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Mellon
Henry Clay Frick
Niagara Falls
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers