This photo was sent in by reader Harold K. and shows some of the damage on the day of the flood. This is the area where the Franklin Street Bridge is. In a letter writing campaign, over 15,000 people sent letters to President Franklin Roosvelt...pleading for some form of flood control to help their stricken city. By 1938, the Army Corp of Engineers began work on our areas river channels. When construction was finished in 1943. They declared Johnstown "Flood Free"...that was until 1977.
As a personal note - I feel that without the Flood Control Project alot of us folks from the West End Section would have perished in the 1977 Flood...of that I am convinced.
As a personal note - I feel that without the Flood Control Project alot of us folks from the West End Section would have perished in the 1977 Flood...of that I am convinced.
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