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Johnstown (City in Cambria co Pa)

a city in Cambria co., Pa.; on the Conemaugh river and Stony creek, and on the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 78 miles E. of Pittsburgh. It contains the great and steel plant, wire, tinplate, wall-paper, paint, cement, fire brick, and leather and woolen manufactories; is the mining, lumbering, stone working, farming, and manufacturing trade center for a region having a population of 225,000; is the seat of Cambria and Johnstown Memorial Hospitals; and has National and other banks, electric light and street railroad plants, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. On May 31, 1889, the city was the scene of a terrible disaster caused by the breaking of the dam across the South Fork of the Conemaugh river, at a point 10 miles E. of the city. The entire valley was in a few minutes devastated and the city of Johnstown and its surrounding villages were practically swept away.

Pop. ( Pop. (1910) 55,482; (1920) 67,327. sula in the extreme S. and separated