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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 Fishing and Hunting Club Historic District: South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club Historic District. July 31, 1986 : Roughly bounded by Fortieth, Main, and ...
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.
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.
As the canal system was gradually made obsolete by faster and cheaper rail transport, the impoundments in the valley were drained or sold to private interests. The reservoir on the South Fork Little Conemaugh was repurposed as a recreational property for use by members of a private fishing and hunting club.
A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.
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, ...