Saturday marked the 136th anniversary of the Great Johnstown Flood, and members of the Johnstown Flood National Memorial ...

The Johnstown Flood Tax, originally intended to help rebuild the city of Johnstown after the 1936 flood, is still in effect ...

A Pennsylvania Representative announced plans for legislation that aims to repeal the “Johnstown Flood Tax.” The flood tax, ...

The second “great flood” to hit Johnstown, Pa., happened on July 20, 1977. It was, however, the third flood to devastate the town in Cambria County - the first in 1889 killed more than 2,000 ...

May 15—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A restored version of the 1926 silent film "The Johnstown Flood" will premiere on May 28 in The State Theater of Johnstown, which just so happened to open in that same ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—A jury convened by a county coroner to investigate the cause of the Johnstown Flood that swept more than 2,000 people to their death on May 31 found on Saturday evening that the ...

“The Johnstown Flood Tax, as it's still known, somewhat misleadingly, was instituted in the aftermath of the 1936 flood by the state legislature. And the intent of the tax was to raise money to ...

A Pennsylvania museum dedicated to remembering the effects of a 19th-century flood is temporarily closed because of flooding. The Johnstown Flood Museum in Cambria County announced on Monday that ...

JOHNSTOWN, Penn., May 21 -- The waters which early to-day threatened destruction in the Conemaugh Valley began slowly to recede at noon, and no additional damage is now expected. View Full Article ...

The Johnstown Flood was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. The Johnstown Flood was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. It caused an unprecedented level of ...

Her book is a novel based on the events surrounding the Johnstown flood in 1889. The flood claimed 2,200 lives after a dam burst on Memorial Day weekend. The book traces some of the complex social ...