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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.
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.
South Fork is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Howell County, Missouri, United States. [2] It is located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of West Plains on U.S. Route 160. As of the 2010 census, South Fork had a population of 241. [3] A post office called South Fork was established in 1860, and remained in operation ...
Museum of Missouri Military History: Jefferson City: Cole: Central: Military [41] [42] Museum of the Dog: Town and Country: St. Louis: Northeast: Art: website, collection of art devoted to the dog, operated by the American Kennel Club: Museum at the German School: Hermann: Gasconade: Northeast: Local history: website, operated by Historic ...
In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden (2001) is a historical novel by American writer Kathleen Cambor. [1]It is based around events of the Johnstown Flood of 1889, when more than 2,000 people drowned after the collapse of the South Fork Dam.
Gaudet started working part-time at the Fishing Heritage Center in July after the museum was awarded Community Preservation Act funding. ... rich history around commercial fishing going back 400 ...
To monitor the dam, Morrell joined South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which owned the dam. Morrell campaigned to club officials to improve the dam, which he had inspected by his own engineers and by those of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Morrell offered to effect repairs, partially at his own expense, but was rejected by club president Benjamin ...
In 1879 Henry Clay Frick was approached by a good friend and neighbor, Benjamin Ruff. Mr. Ruff had quite an idea - to purchase an old canal reservoir a few miles upstream from Johnstown and create a new fishing and hunting club, which was all the rage at the time. Mr. Frick signed on, and in that year the infamous South Fork Fishing and Hunting ...