Activities for Johnstown Flood
The aftermath of the Johnstown Flood.
"Main and Clinton Sts., Looking Southwest." In: "History of the Johnstown
Flood",
by Willis Fletcher Johnson, 1889. P. 145. Library Call Number M79.4 J71h.
Image ID: wea00784, Historic NWS Collection
Location: Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Photo Date: 1889 June
Photographer: Archival Photograph by Mr. Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS
Reference Links
NOAA Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/johnstown.html
Johnstown Flood National Memorial (National Park Service) http://www.nps.gov/jofl/
JAHA Presents - The Johnstown Flood Museum http://www.jaha.org/flood/
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Lesson Plan Links
Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889 http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/5johnstown/5johnstown.htm
Johnstown Unit http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LASSJohnstownUnit6.htm
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Books
The Day It Rained Forever: A Story of the Johnstown
Flood (Once Upon America)
By: Virginia T. Gross (Fiction)
Johnstown Flood: The Day the Dam Burst (American
Disaster)
By: Mary Gow (Nonfiction)
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