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History museum · Johnstown, Cambria County

Johnstown Flood Museum

Johnstown Flood Museum: Carnegie Library in Johnstown, commissioned March 9, 1890 after the Great Johnstown Flood the previous year
Photo: Jet Lowe, HABS photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The story of the 1889 flood that killed more than 2,200 people, told in a former Carnegie library with an Oscar-winning documentary and an animated relief map.

What you will find

  • Museum or exhibits

Make a day of it

Nearby

  • Johnstown Inclined Plane

    Funicular · 0 miles away

    Built in 1891, after the great flood, as an escape route to high ground, a steep funicular big enough to carry cars, topped by an overlook of the city.

  • Johnstown Flood National Memorial

    National memorial · 8 miles away

    The remains of the South Fork Dam, whose collapse on May 31, 1889 unleashed the flood that killed more than 2,200 people downstream, with a visitor center telling the story.

  • Ghost Town Trail

    Rail trail · 11 miles away

    Vanished coal towns once lined this crushed-limestone rail trail along Blacklick Creek, where the stone stack of the 1846 Eliza Furnace still stands beside the path.

  • Gallitzin State Forest

    State forest · 13 miles away

    Mountain woodland named for Demetrius Gallitzin, the frontier priest of the Alleghenies, where the John P. Saylor Trail loops through the rugged backcountry of the Clear Shade Wild Area.