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The dam and the South Fork Reservoir in the 1880s.
View of the lake behind an unidentified house.
Canoeing on Lake Conemaugh at the South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club. The fish screens are visible, and the spillway is just off camera to the left.
Harper’s Weekly engraving of the failed dam.
View of broken dam showing lakebed and the former level of the dam and water.
Another view through the broken dam from the empty lake bottom.
Dried mud on the lake bottom.
Contemporary view of the superintendent’s house with the former lakebed behind, at the Johnstown Flood National Memorial. the
Photograph of the broken dam
Modern photo from the same angle.
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 modern photo).
Col. Unger’s house still stands at the Johnstown Flood National Memorial.
