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 JOHNSTOWN, one of Pennsylvania's leading industrial communities, is located in Cambria 
 County, about seventy-six miles east of Pittsburg, and is well-known as the center of an 
 extensive business in iron and steel manufacturing. The city was founded in 1791. The 
 first settlement was made in the irregular and narrow valley formed by the junction of 
 Stoney Creek and the Conemaugh River. From this small beginning has developed the 
 present metropolis of nearly fifty thousand inhabitants. 
 
 On May 31, 1889, a heavy rainfall caused the dam across the South Fork, a branch of the 
 Conemaugh River, to give way, releasing the waters of Conemaugh Lake (about three 
 miles long and two miles wide) which submerged the city of Johnstown and the surrounding villages, causing a 
 loss of twenty-two hundred and thirty-five lives and a property loss of nearly ten millions of dollars. The 
 country responded generously in aid of the stricken city and fully three millions of dollars in cash and material 
 was distributed immediately. The rebuilding and present-day prosperity of the city dates from this time. 
 
 Johnstown is now the headquarters of many establishments producing iron manufactures, steel rails, street 
 cars, iron plate, furniture, pottery and cement. Coal and iron, clay and limestone are found abundantly in the 
 surrounding territory. 
 
 The city has many public buildings of special architectural interest, splendid churches, and beautiful resi- 
 dences, also nearly twenty-five acres of well-kept public parks. These are all tangible evidences of the 
 prosperity and civic pride of its inhabitants. 
 
 Johnstown affords an inspiring example of the recuperative powers of an American community. It is hard to 
 realize that this city with its fine streets and miles of substantial edifices was the scene of terrible wreck and 
 disaster only a few years ago. The energy and indomitable will of her citizens which has brought about this 
 magical transformation will eventually place Johnstown in the forefront of progressive American cities. 
 
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 Copyright, 1906, by L. H. Nelson Co., Portland, Me. 
 
MAIN STEEET 
 
FRANKLIN STREET 
 
FRANKLIN BUILDING 
 
J. G. McCRORBY & COMPANY'S STORES 
 
CRYSTAL HOTEL 
 
ENGINE COMPANY NUMBER ONE 
 
 ENGINE COMPANY NUMBER THREE 
 
 ENGINE COMPANY NUMBER FOUR 
 
CAMBRIA STEEL COMPANY 
 
CAMBRIA STEEL COMPANY 
 
BIRD'S-EYE VIEW 
 
JF JOHNSTOWN 
 
LORAIN STEEL COMPANY 
 
STONE BRIDGE 
 
RESIDENCE OF J. P. THOMAS 
 
MEMORIAL HOSPITAT, 
 
SOMERSET STREET 
 
VINE STKEET 
 
Old Somerset Turnpike 
 
 Franklin Street 
 
 VIEWS OF EOXBXmY 
 
Village Street 
 
 Park Avenue 
 
 VIEWS OF MOXHAM 
 
D Street 
 
 Fairtield Avenue 
 
 VIEWS OF MOREELLVILLE 
 
SECOND AVENUE, WESTMONT 
 
UNKNOWN PLOT 
 
 GENERAL, VIEW OF GRAND VIEW CEMETERY 
 
VIEWS AT LUNA PARK 
 
HOTEL AT ISLAND PARK 
 
VIEW AT ISI^AiTD PAEK