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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.
A hydraulic analysis published in 2016 confirmed that the changes made to the dam by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club severely reduced its ability to withstand major storms. [3] Lowering the dam by as much as 3 feet (0.91 m) and failing to replace the discharge pipes at its base cut the dam's safe discharge capacity in half. [ 3 ]
June 19, 1972 (304 Washington Street: Johnstown: 11: Colver Historic District: Colver Historic District: June 3, 1994 (Roughly bounded by Ninth Avenue, the Ebensburg Coal Company Power Building, and Bakerville, in Colver
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service. [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.
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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.
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]
South Fork's Bliss Weiler plays Gateway in a No. 2 singles tennis match during the Region 7-3A final on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Martin County.