Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown, Pennsylvania Downtown Johnstown View of Johnstown from inclined plane Clockwise from top left: (1) Downtown, (2) View of Johnstown from Inclined Plane (3) Inclined Plane (4) Point Stadium (5) University of Pittsburgh (6) The Stone Bridge Official seal of Johnstown, Pennsylvania Location of Johnstown in Cambria County Location of Johnstown in Cambria County School District: Greater Johnstown School District Johnstown is a town/city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, 43 miles (69 km) west-southwest of Altoona and 67 miles (108 km) east of Pittsburgh.
The populace was 20,978 at the 2010 census and estimated to be 20,402 in 2013. It is the principal town/city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County. The Carnegie Library, now the Johnstown Flood Museum Johnstown, settled in 1770, has experienced three primary floods in its history.
The 1977 flood - in what was to have been a "flood free" town/city - may have contributed to Johnstown's subsequent populace decline and inability to attract new inhabitants and businesses.
The town/city is home to five nationwide historic districts: the Downtown Johnstown Historic District, Cambria City Historic District, Minersville Historic District, Moxham Historic District, and Old Conemaugh Borough Historic District.
Individual listings on the National Register of Historic Places are the Grand Army of the Republic Hall, Cambria Iron Company, Cambria Public Library Building, Bridge in Johnstown City, Nathan's Department Store, and Johnstown Inclined Railway. This building was impaled on a tree by the raging waters of the 1889 Johnstown flood.
Johnstown was at the head of the canal's branch, with canal boats having been transported over the mountain peaks via the Allegheny Portage Railroad and refloated here, to continue the trip by water to Pittsburgh and the Ohio Valley.
Johnstown became a stop on the chief line of the Pennsylvania Railroad and was connected with the Baltimore & Ohio.
Iron, coal, and steel quickly became central to the town of Johnstown.
By 1860, the Cambria Iron Company of Johnstown was the dominant steel producer in the United States, outproducing steel giants in Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
Through the second half of the 19th century, Johnstown made much of the nation's barbed wire.
Johnstown prospered from skyrocketing demand in the United States for barbed wire.
Twenty years after its founding, the Cambria Works was a huge enterprise widespread over 60 acres (240,000 m2) in Johnstown and employing 7,000.
It did, and an estimated 20 million tons of water began spilling into the winding gorge that led to Johnstown some 14 miles (23 km) away.
The Johnstown Flood established the American Red Cross as the pre-eminent emergency relief organization in the United States.
The Cambria Works grew, and Johnstown became more prosperous than ever.
View of the town/city of Johnstown from up on the Inclined Plane However, the St Patrick's Day flood of 1936 combined with the gnawing effects of the Great Depression left Johnstown struggling again, but only temporarily.
Johnstown's people mobilized to achieve a permanent solution to the flooding lured and wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt pleading for federal aid.
In a campaign organized by the Chamber of Commerce, thousands of Johnstown's people wrote to friends and relatives athwart the nation hoping to bring new company to the town.
Professional ice hockey would find a home in Johnstown, starting in 1941 with the Johnstown Blue Birds for one season and returning in 1950 with the Johnstown Jets.
Johnstown proclaimed itself "flood-free", a feeling reinforced when Johnstown was virtually the only riverside town/city in Pennsylvania not to flood amid Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
The immediate post-World War II years mark Johnstown's peak as a steel manufacturer and fabricator.
At its peak, steel provided Johnstowners with more than 13,000 full-time, well-paying jobs.
However, increased domestic and foreign competition, coupled with Johnstown's relative distance from its major iron ore origin in the Great Lakes, led to a steady diminish in profitability.
Johnstown's mountainous terrain, and the resulting poor layout for the mills' physical plant strung along 11 miles (18 km) of river bottom lands, compounded the problem.
New regulations ordered by the EPA in the 1970s also hit Johnstown, with the aging Cambria plant (now Bethlehem Steel) especially hard.
However, with encouragement from the steel company, the town/city fathers organized an association called Johnstown Area Regional Industries (JARI) and, inside a year, raised $3 million for industrialized evolution in the area.
Bethlehem Steel, which was the primary contributor to the fund, committed itself to bringing new steelmaking technologies to Johnstown because they were impressed by the city's own accomplishments to diversify.
Again, the town/city won a reprieve from the company's top management, which had always regarded the Johnstown works with special affection because of its history and reputation.
As the increasing amount of federal surroundingal regulations became more difficult to comply with and the issues with the aging manufacturing facilities interval more significant, and as steel companies began method down plants all over the country, by 1982 it looked as if Johnstown had exhausted its appeals.
By the early 1990s, Johnstown abandoned most of its steel production, although some limited fabrication work continues.
Downtown Johnstown from street view Enumeration data showed that Johnstown was the least likely town/city in the United States to attract newcomers; however, what were previously mostly weak opportunities provided by the small-town manufacturing and service economies have more recently begun to burgeon, attracting outsiders.
Lockheed Martin relocated a facility from Greenville, South Carolina, to Johnstown in 2008.
Recent assembly in the encircling region, the downtown, and adjoining Kernville neighborhood including a new 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) Regional Technology Complex that will home a division of Northrop Grumman, among other tenants signal the increasing dependence of Johnstown's economy on the U.S.
The high-tech defense trade is now the chief non-health-care staple of the Johnstown economy, with the region pulling in well over $100 - M annually in federal government contracts, punctuated by one of the premier defense trade shows in the U.S., the annual Showcase for Commerce.
Johnstown remains a county-wide medical, educational, cultural, and communications center.
The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and Pennsylvania Highlands Community College attract thousands of students to their adjoining campuses in Richland, 5 miles (8 km) east of Johnstown.
Cambria-Rowe Business College, positioned in the Moxham section of Johnstown, offers concentrated longterm position training and has continuously served Johnstown since 1891.
The Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, a concert/theatrical venue at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, attracts high-quality performers.
The Johnstown Symphony Orchestra and the recently formed Johnstown Symphony Chamber Players furnish classical music.
The Johnstown Concert Ballet, centered in the Historic Cambria City District, provides classical ballet performances and training to the area.
The Johnstown Chiefs ice hockey team provided entertainment to the region for 22 seasons, the longest reconstructiona charter of the league stayed in one city.
It is the first fully certified LEED building in Johnstown.
The recently established ART WORKS in Johnstown! The ART WORKS in Johnstown universal is projected to be a non-profit LEED-certified green building.
In June 2009, the Heritage Discovery Center opened the Johnstown Children's Museum and premiered "The Mystery of Steel", a film detailing the history of steel in Johnstown.
Johnstown also hosts the annual Thunder in the Valley motorcycle rally amid the fourth week of June; the event has thriving motorcyclists from athwart the Northeast to the town/city of Johnstown since 1998.
The Johnstown Fire Department has turn into a prestige in developing intercommunication systems among first responders, and is now a nationwide model for ways to avoid the communications enigma which faced many first responders amid the September 11, 2001 attacks. On May 2, 2015, Johnstown was announced the winner of the 2015 Kraft Hockeyville USA contest and was awarded $150,000 toward improvements of the Cambria County War Memorial Arena.
Johnstown is positioned in southwestern Cambria County at 40 19 31 N 78 55 15 W (40.325174, -78.920954). The Conemaugh River forms at Johnstown at the confluence of its tributaries, the Stonycreek River and the Little Conemaugh.
Climate data for Johnstown Panoramic view of Johnstown The town/city of Johnstown is divided into many neighborhoods, each with its own unique, ethnic feel.
The Bruce Springsteen song "The River" mentions the Johnstown Company: "I got a job working construction, for the Johnstown Company, but lately there ain't been much work, on account of the economy." "Highway Patrolman", another Springsteen song, has the lyrics "as the band played 'Night of the Johnstown Flood.'" The 1977 film Slap Shot, directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman, was a parody loosely based on the real-life Johnstown Jets ice hockey team and its North American Hockey League championship in 1976.
In the movie, Johnstown was rechristened "Charlestown" and the Jets as the Charlestown Chiefs.
The film's premiere engendered some small-town controversy, as some thought Johnstown was portrayed in a less than flattering light.
Locations seen in the movie are the old Johnstown High School in the Kernville neighborhood, torn down shortly afterwards; the Carpatho-Russian Citizen's Club in East Conemaugh; the Franklin works of Bethlehem Steel; the Point Stadium; the Johnstown "Cochran" Junior High football practice field and the Johnstown Vo-Tech football locker room.
Part of the film Rock Star takes place in Pittsburgh, and a several scenes, including the opening scene, were filmed in Johnstown.
The Johnstown Flood, written and directed by Charles Guggenheim, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject in 1989.
The film was commissioned by the Johnstown Flood Museum Association, which later reorganized as the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, and is shown every hour at the Johnstown Flood Museum.
Constantine fictionalized many elements of Johnstown and its culture as "Rocksburg" in his novels, although the close-by city of Greensburg also provides some of the lore for Rocksburg.
In the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead, a character mentions that they are flying over Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and quips that the citizens are actually entertained by the zombie outbreak.
Johnstown is featured in Defenders of Freedom Volume 1 (2010) and Defenders of Freedom Volume 2 (2012).
In the foreword of each volume, Johnstown native and nationally recognized journal publisher Bernard A.
Author and Johnstown native Robert T.
Johnstown is the setting of Jeschonek's story Fear of Rain, which was impel for a British Fantasy Award.
His mystery novels Death by Polka and The Masked Family are also set in and around Johnstown.
Owen Library at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, positioned just outside the town/city limits in Richland Township The two high schools positioned in the town/city of Johnstown are Greater Johnstown High School and Bishop Mc - Cort High School.
Thomas Honda of Johnstown Johnstown Magazine Our Town Johnstown - "Johnstown's Community Newspaper" The Johnstown radio market airways broadcasts in the region are: WFRJ 88.9 Religious Johnstown Family Stations, Inc.
WQEJ 89.7 Classical Johnstown WQED Multimedia W219 - DB 91.7 Religious Johnstown Bible Broadcasting Network WJHT 92.1 Top 40 Johnstown Forever Broadcasting W230 - BK 93.9 Rock Johnstown Forever Broadcasting WFGI 95.5 Country Johnstown Forever Broadcasting WKYE 96.5 Adult Contemporary Johnstown Forever Broadcasting WESA|W263 - AW 100.5 News/Talk Johnstown Essential Public Media,Inc WKGE 850 News/Talk Johnstown Birach Broadcasting Corporation WCRO 1230 Nostalgia Johnstown Greater Johnstown School District WNTJ 1490 News/Talk Johnstown Forever Broadcasting Johnstown is also served by CBS partner WTAJ-TV 10 and ABC partner WATM-TV 23, both based in Altoona, and State College-based PBS member station WPSU-TV 3, licensed to Clearfield but based on the Pennsylvania State University campus.
Several other low-power stations, including WHVL-LP 29 (My - Network - TV) in State College, also transmit to Johnstown.
The chief highway connecting Johnstown to the Pennsylvania Turnpike is U.S.
Route 22 to the north of Johnstown, which joins to Pittsburgh and Altoona.
See also: Johnstown (Amtrak station) Until 1976, small-town transit service was directed by a private company, Johnstown Traction Company.
Johnstown Tomahawks NAHL, Ice hockey Cambria County War Memorial Arena 2012 0 The team announced in February 2010 that they would be leaving Johnstown for a locale in South Carolina.
After the 2011-2012 NAHL hockey season, the Alaska Avalanche relocated to Johnstown and became the Johnstown Tomahawks and have remained in Johnstown ever since.
Since 1944, Johnstown has been the host town/city for the AAABA Baseball Tournament held each summer.
In addition, the town/city has hosted a several incarnations of a Minor League Baseball team, the Johnstown Johnnies, beginning in 1884.
Johnstown also hosts the annual Sunnehanna Amateur golf tournament at its Sunnehanna Country Club.
Johnstown is home to the Flood City Water Polo team.
Johnstown's town/city seal has an image of this facility.
Famous Coney Island Hot Dogs - Founded in 1916, this eatery is synonymous with Johnstown culture.
Frank & Sylvia Pasquerilla Heritage Discovery Center - includes a several attractions: "America: Through Immigrant Eyes," a permanent exhibit about immigration to the region around the turn of the 20th century; the Johnstown Children's Museum, a 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) children's exhibition; and the Iron & Steel Gallery, a 3-story loggia that includes "The Mystery of Steel," a film about the history of steel in Johnstown.
Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown is one of Pennsylvania's biggest cemeteries: With more than 65,000 interments, Grandview is home to over 47 burial sections and more than 235 acres (0.95 km2) of land.
Grandview also holds the remains of the 777 victims of the 1889 Johnstown Flood who were not able to be identified.
Johnstown Flood National Memorial - the National Park Service site that preserves the remains of the South Fork Dam and portions of the Lake Conemaugh bed.
The Johnstown Flood Museum - shows the Academy Award-winning film "The Johnstown Flood" as part of the exhibition experience.
Johnstown Inclined Plane is the world's steepest vehicular inclined plane.
Silver Drive-In - first opened in 1962. While other such facilities in the region have closed over the course of years, the Silver railwaythrough enhance outcry over proposals to close and demolish it, making a comeback in 2005. Located in Richland Township, it is now the only drive-in theater in the Johnstown, Pennsylvania region.
Incantation, death metal band formed in New York City relocated to Johnstown in the mid-1990s Michael Walzer, philosopher and political scientist, born in New York but raised in Johnstown Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania, and Windber, Pennsylvania, close-by communities with notable "Johnstowners" "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Johnstown city, Pennsylvania".
Mc - Cullough, David (1987), The Johnstown Flood, Second Touchstone Edition.
Mc - Cullough, David (1987), The Johnstown Flood, Second Touchstone Edition.
"Monthly Averages for Johnstown, PA".
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The Johnstown Flood, ISBN 0-671-20714-8 Johnstown: Story of a Unique Valley, presented by the Johnstown Flood Museum, 1984.
(2004) For Bread with Butter: The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1940., Cambridge University Press.
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