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Downtown Johnstown Historic District is a national historic district located at Johnstown in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 109 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Johnstown.
The Penn Traffic Company was a food service company founded in 1854 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.. The company eventually evolved into a general merchandise department store. By the early 1960s, it also returned to the food business through the acquisition of Super Value Corporation, which operated the 10-store Riverside supermarket chai
The district includes some buildings dated before the Johnstown Flood, but the majority date from 1890 to 1920. Notable buildings include the collection of two-story, balloon frame, detached and semi-detached dwellings, Fifth Avenue Hotel (1889), Pollack Building (1905), former Cambria Fire Hose and Ladder Company (1890), former Germana Brewery ...
Feb. 24—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — It's the end of an era for a longtime Johnstown restaurant and banquet hall. Excavators on Wednesday were leveling what was left of the Surf n' Turf Inn, a former ...
Visitors on TripAdvisor have called the diner “a trip into real small-town America” and “the best little place in Hatboro.” Open from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, the diner only has 52 seats ...
Johnstown was settled in 1770. The city has experienced three major floods in its history. The Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, occurred after the South Fork Dam collapsed 14.1 miles (22.7 km) upstream from the city during heavy rains. At least 2,209 people died as a result of the flood and subsequent fire that raged through the debris. Another ...
Jul. 6—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Approximately 120 years ago, 112 miners walked into the Rolling Mill Mine portal on the morning of July 10, 1902, but none returned home that day. An explosion, caused ...
This district encompasses 330 contributing buildings that are located in a predominantly working-class residential area in Johnstown, and includes a few examples of high-style, Victorian-era dwellings that represent the Queen Anne and Second Empire styles. [3] Notable buildings include the Young House (c. 1850), which is located on Coal Street.