From Canal Reservoir to Recreational Lake to Disaster Scene
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The Dam and South Fork Reservoir during the 1880s. |
View of the lake behind an unidentified house. |
Canoeing on Lake Conemaugh at the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club. The fish screens are visible and the spillway would be just off-camera to the left. |
 Engraving showing the dam after it broke. |
View of the broken dam from the empty lake showing former level of the dam and lake. |
Another view through the broken dam from the empty lake bottom. |
Dried up mud on the lake bottom. |
View today of the club president's house with the empty "lake" behind. |
Panorama of the empty "lake" from the Johnstown Flood National Memorial. |
Photograph of the broken dam |
Photo from same angle today. |
In spite of plant growth, the broken dam is still visible, like a scooped-out part of the hill in the center of this photo. |
This is the South Fork valley where Lake Conemaugh first roared through after it crushed the dam (on the right of this photo, taken today). |
House of Colonal Unger, president of the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club, still stands at the Johnstown Flood National Memorial. |