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, …
Read MoreThe Waters/Suppes family, which has lived Johnstown for generations, shared this video with us several years ago. It has been featured in the Archives & Collections section of this website, but we are now making it available as part of …
Read MoreBy Cole Szramowski, a PennWest student who wrote this post for us as part of a class he’s taking through Heinz History Center. He thanks local hockey expert Mike Piskuric for his assistance with this article!
Johnstown, Pennsylvania is just like …
Read MoreVirtual Railfan is a streaming platform that offers live views of trains all over the world – and now, its 30 million monthly users will be able to watch trains coming through Johnstown.
Read MoreBy Nicholas Gehlmann. Nick is a volunteer who has been researching military history for us We’re sharing his research on our World War I artifacts for Veterans Day, as part of our Heritage Johnstown at Home series.
2024 marks the 110th …
Read MoreBy David G. Glosser, who along with his family has donated a historic cash register from Glosser Bros. to JAHA (as seen in above photo by Makenzie Croyle: retired JAHA President Richard Burkert, Stephanie and David G. Glosser, JAHA Curator …
Read Moreby Nicholas Lasinsky, guest contributor. Nicholas Lasinsky is a historian born and raised in Cambria County with a passion for local stories. Currently enrolled at Simmons University in Boston, he hopes to become an archivist and published author. He is …
Read MoreThe anniversary of the Johnstown flood is coming up, and JAHA and the National Park Service are planning commemorative events, including an Interpreted Tour of the Johnstown Flood. One of the characters depicted in that tour …
Read MoreWere you a steelworker? Do you or someone you love have a story about working in the steel mills of Johnstown? JAHA wants to hear it!
The momentous new exhibition “Forging a Nation: Johnstown Iron & Steel” is now open at …
Read MoreOn September 7, 2023, a capacity crowd gathered at the Heritage Discovery Center to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Rosedale incident, in which Johnstown’s mayor ordered all Black people who hadn’t lived in Johnstown for at least seven years …
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