JOHNSTOWN HISTORY
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HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

Johnstown Genealogical & Historical Society
Cambria County Historical Society
Portage Area Historical Society
Berlin Area Historical Society
Meyersdale Area Historical Society
Rockwood Area Historical Society
Somerset Historical Center

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

National Register of Historic Places
Berwind-White Mine 40
Cambria City Historic District
Cambria Iron Company
Carnegie Library
Downtown Historic District
G.A.R. Building
Inclined Plane Bridge
Inclined Plane Railway
Moxham Historic District
Nathans Department Store
Conemaugh Borough Historic District
Westmont Historic District

GENERAL

Timeline
Famous People
Weird & Strange
Burgesses and Mayors of Johnstown
Johnstowners Lost in Combat

BOOKS

1865 - The Valley of the Conemaugh
1890 - The Story of Johnstown
1891 - The Rivers at Johnstown
1915 - Infant Mortality in Johnstown
1917 - Cambria Steel Company - Products
1917-1945 A History of the Cambria County Chapter of the American Red Cross

DISASTERS

List of Disasters
1889 Johnstown Flood
1936 Johnstown Flood
1977 Johnstown Flood
1902 Johnstown Mine Disaster

SPORTS

Professional
Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame
Retired Hockey Jerseys
AAABA Baseball Tournament - Champions
AAABA Baseball Tournament - Johnstown Results
AAABA Baseball Tournament - Johnstown Scores
Sunnehanna Golf Tournament
Point Stadium Award
Ken Lantzy Football Game
Tribune-Democrat Senior Hoops Showcase
War Memorial Invitational Basketball Tournament
High School State Championships
College National Championships

MUNICIPALITIES

Southmont Borough

INSTITUTIONS/BUSINESSES

National Radiator Company
Conemaugh Hospital - Past Chairmen, Board of Trustees
Conemaugh Hospital - Past Presidents, Medical Staff
Conemaugh Hospital - Past Presidents, Junior Auxiliary

CHURCHES

Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Ferndale United Methodist
Saint Joseph Church 1852-1952

PRESIDENTIAL/CAMPAIGN SPEECHES IN JOHNSTOWN

October 23rd, 1948 - President Harry S. Truman
October 15th, 1960 - President John F. Kennedy
October 24th, 1960 - President Richard M. Nixon
September 9th, 2004 - President George W. Bush
October 18th, 2004 - Vice President Dick Cheney

PROGRAMS

1940 Roxbury Bandshell
1949 War Memorial Invitational Basketball Tournament
1954 War Memorial Invitational Basketball Tournament
1955 War Memorial Invitational Basketball Tournament
1988 Johnstown Chiefs Hockey
1988-Jan-13 Johnstown Chiefs Hockey Game Program
1988-1989 Johnstown Chiefs Hockey
1995-1996 Johnstown Chiefs Hockey
1995 War Memorial Holiday Hockey Tournament
1995 Johnstown Steal Scorecard
1996 PA State Hockey Championships
1997 PA State Hockey Championships
1996 PA Penguin Cup Hockey Championships
2001 Johnstown J-Dogs Arena Football
2005 AAABA Hall of Fame Banquet
2005 Johnstown Riverhawks Arena Football
2006 Johnstown Riverhawks Arena Football
2006 Roxbury Bandshell
2006 Artists' Hall of Fame
2008 Brownstown Centennial
2008 Roxbury Bandshell
2010-02-12 Roxbury Bandshell Fat Friday Fundraiser
2010-02-16 Congressman Murtha Funeral
2010-06-05 Johnstown Community Event
2010 Roxbury Bandshell

BROCHURES

1950s National Radiator Company

MAPS

Old Johnstown
1854 Johnstown-Altoona Railroad
1877 Western Pennsylvania
1884 Cambria County
1890 Johnstown
1890 Western Pennsylvania
1891 Johnstown
1907 Johnstown
1915 Cambria County
1941 Cambria County
1962 Cambria County
1975 Cambria County
1990 Cambria County

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HISTORICAL AMERICAN BUILDINGS

NEIGHBORHOODS
Cambria City and Minersville (1.3Mb)
Downtown (1.4Mb)
Johnstown (2.0Mb)
Westmont (1.6Mb)

STEEL MILLS
Bethlehem Steel Company, 11" Mill and Shipping Building, Lower Works (0.09Mb)
Bethlehem Steel Company, Entrance Gate and Footbridge, Lower Works (0.085Mb)
Bethlehem Steel Company, Railroad Office, Lower Works (0.1Mb)
Cambria Iron Company (2.64Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Blacksmith Shop, Lower Works (1.15Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Blast Furnaces 1-4 and Blowing Engine House, Lower Works (0.11Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Blast Furnaces 5 and 6, Lower Works (0.16Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Car Shop, Lower Works (0.54Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Foundry, Lower Works (2.28Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Pattern Shop, Lower Works (0.53Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Rolling Mill Office, Lower Works (0.56Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Gautier Works (0.2Mb)
Cambria Iron Company, Merchant Mill, Lower Works (0.1Mb)
Cambria Steel Company, East Boiler House, Lower Works (0.1Mb)
Cambria Steel Company, Compressor Engine House, Lower Works (0.08Mb)
Cambria Steel Company, Machine Shop, Lower Works (0.1Mb)
Cambria Steel Company, West Boiler House, Lower Works (0.09Mb)
Cambria Steel Company, Work Orders Office, Lower Works (0.1Mb)
Johnson Steel Street Rail Company (5.6Mb)

CHURCHES
Croatian Hall, 612 Broad Street Street (0.07Mb)
First Catholic Slovak Band Hall, 716 Chestnut Street (0.08Mb)
Hungarian Reformed Church, 822-824 Chestnut Street (0.07Mb)
Immaculate Conception Church of the Blessed Virgin, 308 Broad Street (0.13Mb)
Our Mother of Sorrows Church, 424 Tioga Street (0.1Mb)
Westmont Presbyterian Church, 601 Luzerne Street (0.09Mb)
St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church, 500 Power Street (0.13Mb)
St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, 917 Chestnut Street (0.1Mb)
St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, 918 Broad Street (0.12Mb)
St. Emerich's Roman Catholic Church, 600 Chestnut Street (0.09Mb)
St. Mary's Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, 401 Power Street (0.09Mb)
St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church, 300 Chestnut Street (0.09Mb)
St. Stephen's Slovak Catholic Church, 414 Fourth Avenue (0.12Mb)

HOTELS
Clinton Hotel, 100 Clinton Street (0.06Mb)
European Hotel, 313-315 Fourth Avenue (0.06Mb)
Fifth Avenue Hotel, 502-504 Broad Street (0.11Mb)
Third Avenue Hotel, 222-224 Chestnut Street (0.3Mb)

SCHOOLS
Chestnut Street School, 500 Chestnut Street (0.08Mb)

HOUSES
120 Blair Street (0.055Mb)
403 Brallier Place (0.086Mb)
418 Broad Street (0.074Mb)
44-46 Bucknell Avenue (0.069Mb)
434 Bucknell Avenue (0.067Mb)
728 Bucknell Avenue (0.059Mb)
926 Bucknell Avenue (0.064Mb)
122-124 Chestnut Street (0.146Mb)
202 Chestnut Street (0.1Mb)
207 Chestnut Street (0.09Mb)
313-315 Chestnut Street (0.085Mb)
403-403 1/2 Chestnut Street (0.125)
601-601 1/2-603 Chestnut Street (0.129Mb)
813 Chestnut Street (0.092Mb)
816 1/2 Chestnut Street (0.111Mb)
902 Chestnut Street (0.06Mb)
27 Clarion Street (0.065Mb)
60 Clarion Street (0.069Mb)
114 Clarion Street (0.064Mb)
140 Colgate Avenue (0.113Mb)
146 Colgate Avenue (0.115Mb)
510 Edgehill Drive (0.100Mb)
528 Edgehill Drive (0.066Mb)
834-836 Edgehill Drive (0.126Mb)
120 Erie Street (0.066Mb)
204-206 Erie Street (0.079Mb)
105 Fayette Street (0.054Mb)
126 Fayette Street (0.091Mb)
131 Fayette Street (0.062Mb)
144 Fayette Street (0.079Mb)
152 Fayette Street (0.072Mb)
200 Fayette Street (0.059Mb)
227 Fayette Street (0.059Mb)
245 Fayette Street (0.067Mb)
131 Greene Street (0.061Mb)
143 Greene Street (0.127Mb)
202 Greene Street (0.091Mb)
203-209 Greene Street (0.061Mb)
233 Greene Street (0.066Mb)
238 Greene Street (0.069Mb)
215-217 Honan Avenue (0.112Mb)
144-146 Iron Street (0.082Mb)
159 Iron Street (0.065Mb)
169 Iron Street (0.117Mb)
171-173 Iron Street (0.073Mb)
195-197 Iron Street (0.104Mb)
203-205 Iron Street (0.118Mb)
227-229 Iron Street (0.151Mb)
248-250 Iron Street (0.115Mb)
272-274 Iron Street (0.070Mb)
42 Lehigh Street (0.082Mb)
59 Lehigh Street (0.078Mb)
201-205 Luzerne Street (0.064Mb)
345 Luzerne Street (0.067Mb)
403 Luzerne Street (0.057Mb)
418 Luzerne Street (0.094Mb)
434 Luzerne Street (0.056Mb)
600 Luzerne Street (0.068Mb)
800 Luzerne Street (0.084Mb)
202 Mifflin Street (0.058Mb)
212 Mifflin Street (0.067Mb)
115 Montour Street (0.072Mb)
521-523 Power Street (0.078Mb)
317 Second Avenue (0.069Mb)
134 Tioga Street (0.068Mb)
233 Tioga Street (0.059Mb)
238 Tioga Street (0.072Mb)
244 Tioga Street (0.079Mb)
535 Tioga Street (0.256Mb)
603 Tioga Street (0.092Mb)
444 Wayne Avenue (0.065Mb)
534 Wayne Avenue (0.063Mb)
18 Wyoming Street (0.080Mb)
17-119 Wyoming Street (0.087Mb)
132 Wyoming Street (0.080Mb)
144 Wyoming Street (0.085Mb)
216-218 Wyoming Street (0.110Mb)

City Hall, Main and Market Streets (0.2Mb)
Flood Museum, 304 Washington Street (0.3Mb)
Germania Brewing Company Building, 200 Sixth Avenue (0.07Mb)
Harrigan-Sturver Building, 134 Iron Street (0.08Mb)
Horner Street Bridge (0.7Mb)
Inclined Plane (0.6Mb)
Johnstown Local Flood Protection Project (2.79Mb)
Johnstown Passenger Railway Company Car Barns, 726 Central Avenue (0.97Mb)
Johnstown Passenger Railway Company, Baumer Street Powerhouse, Baumer Street (0.1Mb)
L.H. Mayer Building, 414 Locust Street 0.4Mb)
Lenhart Building, 106 Clinton Street (0.05Mb)
Penn Traffic Building, 319 Washington Street (0.36Mb)
Pennsylvania Railroad Conemaugh River Viaduct (Stone Bridge) (0.2Mb)
Pennsylvania Railroad Station (0.3Mb)
Tioga Street Market, 202 Tioga Street (0.05Mb)
U.S. Post Office (Old), 131 Market Street (0.4Mb)
Victor Faith Building, 322-324 Second Avenue (0.09Mb)
Wehn's Building, 108 Clinton Street (0.06Mb)
Samuel Pollak Meat Market, 314-316 Broad Street (0.1Mb)
Mannechor Singing Society Hall, 210 Chestnut Street (0.11Mb)
Polish National Alliance Building, 153 Benshoff Street (0.10Mb)


SURROUNDING AREAS

Blacklick Valley - Nanty Glo