Archive: Mar 2022

JAHA members get a FREE upgrade to VIP when they buy their 2-day passes to the AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival in-person at the Heritage Discovery Center (must hold a Family-level membership or above; limit of 4 passes per membership). …

by Yamila Audisio, Curatorial Assistant

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” Virginia Woolf once wrote. This is especially true in the 19th century when written history only portrayed upper-class men. Johnstown’s history is no exception. This was the case …

In 1907, the Germania Brewing Company was built in Cambria City. It included a courtyard ringed by a five-story brew house, a bottling plant, and a cooperage and warehouse. Prohibition put the company out of business in 1919, and the …