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The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania corporation that operated an exclusive and secretive retreat at a mountain lake near South Fork, Pennsylvania. Its members were more than 50 extremely wealthy industrialists and their families. Most were based in Pittsburgh, the center of steel and related industries.
Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
On the morning of May 31, in a farmhouse on a hill just above the South Fork Dam, Elias Unger, president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, awoke to the sight of Lake Conemaugh swollen after a night-long heavy rainfall. Unger ran outside in the still-pouring rain to assess the situation and saw that the water was nearly cresting the dam.
Morrell became a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, an exclusive club made up of elite industrialists and businessmen from Pittsburgh. Its property included the South Fork Dam and its large reservoir, which the club named Lake Conemaugh. As he had long been based in Johnstown, Morrell knew the dam had failed in 1862.
He was born in Wellsville, Ohio, the son of William A. McIntosh (died 1921) and his wife Minerva née Bottenberg (died 1883). [2] His father was the president of a public company, New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, and a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. [3]
It is a 64 page document, covers the clubhouse of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and eight lake front cottages, includes photos. It is really about the club, seems appropriate to cover in article about the club, not separately, imho. Doc authors Richard F. Truscello, Fred Denk, William Sisson; date of prep May 1986.
South Fork most commonly refers to the peninsula at the east end of the South Shore of Long Island. ... South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club; South Fork High School, ...
South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club Historic District. July 31, 1986 : Roughly bounded by Fortieth, Main, and Lake Streets Adams Township: 29 ...