The Story of Johnstown: Its Early Settlement, Rise and Progress, Industrial Growth, and Appalling Flood on May 31st, 1889 - Paperback

by J. J. McLaurin (Author)

A history of Johnstown, published in 1890, from the colonial period to the 1889 flood, when the South Fork Dam on the Conemaugh River failed. Features a journalistic account of the flood.

Author Biography

J. J. McLaurin (1841-1923) was a journalist and editor of the Harrisburg Telegram, one of the largest weekly newspapers in Pennsylvania in the late nineteenth century.