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The Johnstown Flood Museum is a history museum located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the Johnstown Flood of 1889. The museum is housed in the former Cambria Public Library, which is part of the Downtown Johnstown Historic District. [1] The Johnstown Flood Museum chronicles the events of the flood through exhibits and media. The ...
One of the first major fossil finds of the 20th century in Pennsylvania was the 1902 discovery of dinosaur tracks at a fisher's Quarry near Graterford in Montgomery County. [23] Another prominent early 1900s discovery was a lower jaw from the amphibian Calamops was discovered in the Late Triassic Stockton Formation at Holicong .
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] Established in 1964 [4] through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, [5] [6] it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood, who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.
The museum was founded in 1953 with help from local businessman Hugh M. North. [1] It became independent from the college in 1992. In 2014, the museum underwent a renovation before reopening in 2015. [2] [3]
Fossil (right) of the Early Jurassic dinosaur footprint ichnogenus Anomoepus †Anomoepus †Anomoepus gracillimus †Apatopus †Atreipus †Atreipus milfordensis †Batrachopus †Batrachopus gracilis †Belodon †Belodon priscus †Brachychirotherium †Brontozoum †Brontozoum sillimanium †Calamops – type locality for genus
By March 17 and 18, rain and flooding affected every state in New England, along with Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington D.C. Hancock, Maryland, after ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Pennsylvania contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Pennsylvania and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
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