Updates from Heritage Johnstown

By Nikki Bosley, Heritage Johnstown staff

“It was only a question of time until the dam would break.” – John Fulton

It was 7:00 a.m. on the morning of May 31, 1889, and John Fulton, General Manager of the Cambria Iron Company, …

Heritage Johnstown is the grateful recipient of two AED devices, donated by the Rotary Club of Johnstown! An AED, or automated external defibrillator, is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use device that can treat a person in sudden cardiac arrest, drastically improving …

Yesterday Sean McCool, Heritage Johnstown board member, and Marisa Tracey of Heritage Johnstown received a $5,000 check from Lee Initiatives to support the Sidney & Rae Goldblatt Johnstown Children’s Museum’s “Inclimber Room.” The grant is part of a three-year commitment …

Objects can sometimes tell stories better than words. “Relic Tales of the Johnstown Floods,” a new temporary exhibition on the second floor of the Heritage Discovery Center, gives visitors a snapshot of Johnstown’s three major floods – 1889, 1936, and …

The AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival has announced a strong lineup for the July 25-26 festival, with headliners Gov’t Mule and Pigeons Playing Ping Pong.

“The success of the last three festivals, each of which has been a box office record, …

by Amy Regan, Heritage Johnstown curator

For Women’s History Month, we’d like to share the story of artist Helen F. Price, who was born in Johnstown to Sarah Haws Price and Charles F. Price in 1892. Her parents survived the 1889 …

We are grateful to all who came out to support our Death in the Library fundraiser, which was held here at the Heritage Discovery Center on March 1. A special thanks to our sponsors, Rabbit Hill Arts, Sarah Gayle & …

The documentary “Defining Moments: The Life & Leadership of Quiet Revolutionary Frances Hesselbein” will be presented at the Frank & Sylvia Pasquerilla Heritage Discovery Center on Wed., Mar. 12, at 7:00 pm. The documentary about the Johnstown native will …

In the early 2000s, AmeriCorps member Mike Burke worked with Heritage Johnstown (then known as JAHA) and the Johnstown chapter of the NAACP to research early Black history here. By poring through written documentation such as census records, early newspapers, …

On Thursday, January 23, water damage was discovered at the Johnstown Flood Museum, caused by a heating system valve that sprung a leak due to extreme cold temperatures. One of our docents, Nikki Bosley, went to the archives to work …