Now THIS.....THIS is the content we all love. super unique, and locals history. I cant say if this is a commonly known event outside of the area....but I've never heard of it. Fantastic video, looking forward to more stuff like this!

Being a native of Johnstown. I've grown up here, I'm raising my children here. I've only have come across your channel just yesterday and have already watched 30+ videos of yours mostly ww1&2 and your titanic videos which are my 3 favorite times of history to learn about and obsessively watch documentary after documentary and other history channels that talk about those events. But this video is my favorite of all the ones of yours that I've watched. I've always loved history and having a real historian cover this historic event that literally hits close to home for me is a special treat. So I thank you for that.

So awesome to see you doing a video on my town. I was born and raised here and my city gets alot of negative attention, but I love being from here. We are still struggling with the collapse of the US steel industry, but we won't give up.

I havent seen it yet, but its amazing how we managed to get this Channel to 100k subscribers! Congrats Chris and well done community

I grew up 2 hours from here and this is the first time I’m hearing about this. Just goes to show how terrible my history education was. Loved this video. Look forward to more like it or going back to finding the other vlogs you’ve done.

My family roots are from Johnstown, so I'm happy to see it getting some love!

ironic how happy is playing in the background when he gets to johnstown

Woo :) - keep going with the vlogs, as over time the audience will get used to this format too!

You should do a reaction to your old videos just in case u have recently discovered something new about these historical sites! I think I speak for everyone that getting your take on these sites after years would be entertaining and educational!

I actually got my Civil Engineering degree at Pitt: Johnstown. We went to the museum that appears near the end of the video for our Hydraulics course. Also, I believe the museum at the beginning of the video is also the one that my AP US History class in high school went to.

The dam was lowered by the hunting club to allow carriages to pass over the top of the dam. Also the spillway was less than half as wide as originally designed. These 2 items were determined to be the major contributor during factors to the failure according to the ASCE 1891 investigation. As someone in the Dam Safety community these failures remind me of why it is important to be vigilant in maintaining our nation's infrastructure.

I want to thank you for making this video, I’m a native to the Johnstown (in Ebensburg/Nanty-Glo) area and have to drive down to the city often. I always drive past these areas frequently and tell people the story on what happened. A lot of people don’t know the tragedy so seeing this video makes me happy seeing others learn about the history here and what happened.

I have to go back and check out more of your content before the reactions. Great stuff and first time hearing of this disaster and its history. Thank you.

Toccoa, GA had a similar disaster when the Kelly Barnes Dam failed in 1977. I figured I'd mention it since you're heading out that way.

I live only 30 minutes away from Johnstown. Near Ligonier too, some of my family and friends live in Johnstown. I remember some of the older family members talking about the flood. Then I remember going on a hiking trip with my scout troop on the laurel highland trails, and overlooking Johnstown. It was actually beautiful for a town that went down hill. Also go to Fallenwaters in Mill Run PA, its about Frank Lloyds crazy house. Its beautiful there too. A bunch of history in that area.

Great video about my hometown of Johnstown! Appreciate the commentary!

Love this kind of content. Very sad story. Thanks for sharing

Great video! This is an excellent overview of the flood and its aftermath and a fitting tribute to the victims.

I've been watching your channel for the better part of a week now and I just now noticed that you did a video on the Flood. It really shows your commitment to history by covering this horrific incident. Even traveling to this forgotten area to film it. As a Johnstown Native, I really appreciate you doing this.

With the pandemic going on, I really love this type of videos! I feel like I'm on a field trip from across the world!

Hey im actually living in johnstown PA now...Thanks for the video..This was very informative and interesting..Ive been up to the old south fork dam but never to the Flood museum. I have to go there though for sure.

In the spirit of these types of videos, I thought I would share some of my own local history from where I grew up that you may find interesting. I know you plan to go to Chattanooga, so I thought I’d tell you about the battles where I live. And apologies if this is a long comment, but I hope you are able to see this and find it interesting. I grew up about two hours south of Chattanooga, and about 40 minutes west of Atlanta. Obviously, the whole northern half of Georgia is full of historical battle sites. Growing up, my house was actually about 3 minutes away from a battle site, and it’s highly possible that soldiers fought on my property. This battle was called the battle of New Hope Church. It happened on May 25th and 26th of 1864 as a part of Sherman’s Atlanta campaign. In this battle, Union forces were actually stopped because Sherman believed he could outsmart Johnston by flanking him, but Johnston knew this was coming. This lead to a standstill at New Hope Church, and a loss of 1,665 Union soldier lives and only 450 Confederate ones. After this standstill, the Union decided to push north to Pickett’s mill where the Confederates, again, won the battle with little casualties. Around the main area of the battle site (the place I was 3 minutes from) is the church in question, although I can’t remember if this is the original building. Apparently it was said that this church was used as a hospital for both Union and confederate soldiers. Across the street from the church is a Confederate cemetery. Around the battlefield, many people have found numerous relics from the war. Most notably, a Dominos Pizza place (which I quite literally right next to the cemetery like only a fence away) found a few cannon balls. I have some woods behind my house where I believe I found a few trenches dug out. There is no way I can prove if they really are trenches or not, but considering the standstill and the location of my house to the battlefield, I would not doubt if they were. Anyways, apologies for the long comment. I hope you are able to see this and read it! I never really got interested in my local history until I started watching your videos just a few days ago. And ironically I’ve always been a huge history buff like you. It just goes to show how we sometimes take stuff for granted. Anyways, if you ever have the chance to go farther south in Georgia then I highly recommend it because there is a ton of history there. Edit: also, upon more research, this was one of the first major defeats for the Union in this campaign, and it was an extremely bloody and violent battle.

As a citizen of johnstown, I enjoyed watching this video, and I was unaware how many people even learned about the Johnstown flood, for us we always had a part for it in our history classes, I'm glad you reposted this video for us all to "enjoy"

Nice, these History on Location videos are great! Thanks for posting

Pretty freaking awesome!!!! Keep em coming!!!

Thank you for the view and into of this tragic event. So much more insightful then the info in my 8th grade history book all those years ago.

I'm amused by that one person, who after one day, was so dissatisfied for whatever reason by this video to express their disgust with a thumb-down! My family is from this area and I've been to both museums. Oh yes, I too have seen the 3D experience of the Johnstown Johnstown flood (not a typo) museum (not to be mistaken with the one at the top of the dam). And the massive terrain model. 17 years of neglecting a problem. Damn, dam.

First of your on-site videos I’ve watched. This was great! One long-term recommendation for these: it would be really cool to see some drone footage for these on-site videos. Could help communicate the scale that you don’t necessarily get from ground views. Just an idea. Love your channel. Thanks Chris!

Thank you for making this! I have been looking for information and good docs about the Johnstown Flood!

My parents took me here when I was a kid. Super interesting place, if you're passing by that part of Pennsylvania don't pass it up.

I audited a client there and spent like 6 months there in over 3 years. Crazy to see this in person and then on KZfaq video haha

Thanks man I'm a real fan of us history so much of it for such a young country Can't wait for you to go to europe

Great vid, it's sad how little people know about this incident, it was one of the worst cases of irresponsible behavior causing deaths. Hard to believe no one was charged with murder

I lived in New Florence PA which is very close to Johnstown and New Florence was also affect by the flood, part of the town was also destroyed and many in my family lost homes due to the flood.

If you ever come here to Boston, you should do a video on the Great Molasses Flood or the Boston Police Strike both happened in 1919

That's pretty neat I've never heard about this till now thanks VTH

Visited the same two sites back in 2019 after reading David McCullough's book on the flood. Didn't realize at the time but it was close to the Flight 93 memorial so we also visited there the same day

I remember my 8th grade textbook lightly mentioning the Johnstown Flood and after the short browse on the topic I grew curious. I would then do an unhealthy amount of research on Henry Clay Frick, South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, and the recovery efforts of the disaster. What a weird and widely forgotten event in American history

In case you were unaware, there were two other floods, much less drastic, that hit the city in 1936 and 1977. The town is very flood prone, you would figure we would have taken the hint after the first time.

I wanna see you reacting to your older vlogs

I live near this place, its very nice, lots of history.

If anyone is more interested in Carnegie’s involvement in this and other local happenings of the time Lee Standiford’s Carnegie biography “Meet You in Hell” gives a great overview. I’m a Pittsburgh native myself, so I love stuff like that. :)

I’m so happy he got 100k

First video after I subscribe is where I'm watching from! 😃

I had heard of the Johnstown Flood but I had no idea it was this bad. Geez.

A lesson for our politicians now! Far too often, the designs of engineers are overruled or not properly maintained as designed, by moneymen and politicians. This is but one of far too many examples of that, from all over the world. My father was a Chartered Civil Engineer specialising in water management, so dams, sluices, river banks (when raised, called levees in the US I believe), culverts and bridges were his stock in trade, and far too often he had to fight to keep them properly maintained. He fought a lifelong battle against building on flood plains, as one example. I think some of the idiots he was forced to answer to believed (I'd say "thought", but they appeared incapable of that process) that excess water could be trucked out, they were so brainless. And so the infrastructure of centuries crumbles.

We need Spiky Hair Chris back!

Don't Blame the Fish. Nor even the rich guys who built the Dam and the fishing and hunting club. The city of Johnstown had Civil engineers and others who understood what was needed, They knew what to do but they all decided it was someone else's problem and just let it go, and like water those things trickled down They trickled into the grates they picked at the uncompacted stone cleaning them making them gleam and polished by the eddies of time. All continued until the water was ready. Now if it was wind, we had procedures we had storm cellars. If it was Earth Quakes, well the houses can get fixed and the ground here is fairly stable Yellowstone Caldera Fire hell that's predictable just respect it. Water, Water is a stone cold, sneaky, Female dog who will rip out your throat right after you gave her fillet mignon. Water trickled into that dam it found every weakness and began the great work. it filled those weak points and since it was too dirty to work the area in the Spring & Fall, to hot in the summers. The engineers only came out to check the dam in the winter, when it was Rock hard and obviously fine. Remember that water in the cracks? Well it was frozen there. Making everything solid. Do you know one of the weird property. it expands when it freezes. Take a tough cut of meat put it in a pan with beef stock. Freeze it and thaw it 2 to 3 times it will melt in your mouth like butter on fillet mignon.< the water wants that back> it warmed up and the spring water was more than expected. It blew that dam to hell and gone. The approximate weight of that wall of water was 3,960,000 tons. Physics, Chemistry, Math... Three things you need to be a city Comptroller. Looks like some let Otis out a might too son.

a well edited interesting video.

I like 10min outside of Johnston and my family is from there!

9:50 blame the people in charge instead not the fish lol

I never knew that the dam wasn’t maintained

Very cool.

A tragic fate for those people.

Yoooo im here during th e premiere lets gooo

Chris when are u coming to England?!

Wow, 20M tons.... I can’t even....... .....

First lol

Please react to the Channel WarHawk ! He has amazing Civil War battlefield videos

Could you do anything on Julius Ceasar? Maybe last years and leading up to his assassination?

If you see this I would like to pick your brain about going to college for History with a goal of maybe becoming a History teacher.

second lol

secone dlol

I live like 30 mins away from Johnstown, in a city that nobody’s heard of in Pa