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Woodvale Borough after the Johnstown Flood

ca. 1889

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Woodvale Borough after the Johnstown Flood
  • Title
  • Woodvale Borough after the Johnstown Flood
  • Date
  • ca. 1889
  • Identifier
  • 20201103-hpjaha-0014
  • Description
  • Woodvale Borough was the Cambria Iron Company's model town before the Johnstown Flood. The town possessed 255 frame houses, a wool mill, a brick works owned by the Cambria company, and other manufacturing plants. Woodvale had the highest per capita loss of life of any of the Johnstown boroughs. Only the ruined woolen mill and a pedestrian bridge over the Pennsylvania Railroad line remained.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Mills and mill work
    Landscapes
    Railroads
    Railroad trains
    Buildings
    Dwellings
    Rivers
    Industrial buildings
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.)
  • Source
  • The Historical Johnstown Collection of David Beale
  • Contributor
  • Johnstown Area Heritage Association
  • Collection
  • Reverend David J. Beale Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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