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Disastrous floods and the demise of steel in Johnstown / Pat Farabaugh; foreward by Richard Burkett, President and CEO of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association.
"Johnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions in 1889, it was considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history and gained global attention. Sadly, that deluge was only the first of three major floods to claim lives and wreak havoc in the region. The destruction in the wake of the St. Patrick's Day flood in 1936 was the impetus for groundbreaking federal and local flood control measures. Multiple dam failures, including the Laurel Run Dam in July 1977, left a flooded Johnstown with a failing steel industry in ruins. Author Pat Farabaugh charts the harrowing history of Johnstown's great floods and the effects on its economic lifeblood."--
Record details
- ISBN: 1467150010
- ISBN: 9781467150019
- Physical Description: 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Included bibliography and index. |
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| Subject: | Floods > Pennsylvania > Johnstown (Cambria County) Steel industry and trade > Pennsylvania > Johnstown (Cambria County) |
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- 21 of 22 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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| Beaverdale Public Library | 974.87 F (Text) | 31814450620171 | BVRM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Bedford County Library | 974.87 F (Text) | 35010001089158 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cambria County Library | 974.877 F219d (Text) | 85131001796219 | CACM Non-Fiction | Checked Out | 05/01/2024 |
| Cambria County Library | PA. RM. 974.877 F219d (Text) | 85131001796227 | CACM Pennsylvania Room | Available | - |
| Carrolltown Public Library | HISTORY 974.877 FAR (Text) | 31814200542139 | CARM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Conemaugh Township Branch | 974.87 FAR (Text) | 35907001737282 | SOCC Non Fiction | Available | - |
| Ebensburg Public Library | PA 974.87 FAR (Text) | 31814700851113 | EBNM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Everett Free Library | 974.87 F (Text) | 15537000027351 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hollidaysburg Area Public Library | 974.877 Far 2021 (Text) | 10HOL000473742 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Huntingdon County Library | NF 974.877 FAR (Text) | 30298100592181 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
