Updates from Heritage Johnstown

As of January 5, Marisa Lehman (left) has succeeded Deb Winterscheidt as chief operating officer for Heritage Johnstown.

Marisa is no stranger to Heritage Johnstown, having served as the organization’s director of rentals and sales in 2023-2024, and she has worked …

 Celebration Johnstown, Discover Downtown Partnership (DDJP), and Heritage Johnstown are partnering to present “A Bright New Year” inside the Community Foundation Oilhouse at Peoples Natural Gas Park on New Year’s Eve.

The event will include activities for families and children, …

By Nicholas Gehlmann. Nick is a volunteer who has been researching military history for us. We’re sharing his research on our World War II heroes for Veterans Day, as part of our Heritage Johnstown at Home series. (Photo above: Main …

Heritage Johnstown is planning a busy slate of holiday events and activities for the entire family – check our calendar of events for more! This year we’re also planning a series of initiatives to make this season …

October 5-11, 2025 is National Fire Safety Week. For the occasion, Amy Regan, Heritage Johnstown’s curator, takes us on a trip to the Pennsylvania National Fire Museum of Harrisburg to show a special piece of Johnstown’s history.

The Pennsylvania National Fire …

Heritage Johnstown is delighted to have reopened the Johnstown Flood Museum as of September 29! The reopening will be celebrated on Thursday, October 9 with a cocktail party at 5:00 pm.

The museum has been closed due to water damage from …

Heritage Johnstown and the Greater Johnstown Community YMCA are partnering to present Corks & Cocktails: 15th Annual Charity Wine Auction on Fri., Sept. 12 at 6:00 pm. The auction event, which will be held inside the Community Foundation Oilhouse at …

Today Discover Downtown Johnstown Partnership (DDJP) held a press conference at Peoples Natural Gas Park to announce temporary locations for activities that will be displaced by 2025 construction at Johnstown’s Central Park. Heritage Johnstown and Discover Downtown Johnstown Partnership have …

by Amy Regan, Heritage Johnstown curator

The disaster of the 1889 Johnstown Flood presents a question: what would you do if everything you had known was taken away in a single afternoon? Anna Fenn’s story exemplifies the human ability to survive …

At the time of the 1889 flood, Johnstown’s population was about 30,000 people, and 2,209 died in the disaster. Whether you survived or not was largely determined by where you were at the time the flood hit, and sometimes sheer …