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Carnegie was one of more than 50 members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which has been blamed for the Johnstown Flood that killed 2, 209 people in 1889.
At the suggestion of his friend Benjamin Ruff, Carnegie's partner Henry Clay Frick had formed the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club high above Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.
With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.
Prior to the flood, speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, made less than well-engineered repairs to the old dam, raised the lake level, built cottages and a clubhouse, and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.
When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.
The railroad connected Lower Manhattan via the South Ferry to Greenport on the North Fork of Long Island, where a ferry connected to Stonington, Connecticut to a rail link that continued to Boston.
The Sabine rises in northeast Texas by the union of three branches: the Cowleech Fork, Caddo Fork, and South Fork.
The South Fork rises in the southwestern corner of Hunt County and flows east for, joining the Caddo Fork and Cowleech Fork in southeastern Hunt County.
* Seneca Creek ( North Fork South Branch Potomac River ), West Virginia
** Johnstown Flood: The South Fork Dam collapses in western Pennsylvania, killing more than 2, 200 people in and around Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
It was located in Coloma, California, at the bank of the South Fork American River.
The site of the mill is located on the South Fork American River.
The principal towns are: Alamosa, Monte Vista, Del Norte, South Fork, Creede, Saguache, Center, Fort Garland, San Luis, Antonito, La Jara, Capulin, Manassa, Sanford, Crestone, Villa Grove, Hooper, Mosca, San Acacio and a number of smaller locations.
Music in the valley has two well known sponsors in the South Fork Music Association and the Alamosa Live Music Association.
The river is formed in Park County, Colorado, southwest of Denver in the South Park grassland basin by the confluence of the South Fork and Middle Fork, approximately southeast of Fairplay.
South and Peachtree
** Peachtree Center South, 1969
) Dr. Powell ( 1798-1870 ) owned most of the land in the Candler Lake and South Fork Peachtree Creek area during his lifetime.
* the South Fork of Peachtree Creek and the Druid Hills CDP to the south, and
) Dr. Powell ( 1798 – 1870 ) owned most of the land in the Candler Lake and South Fork Peachtree Creek area during his lifetime.
Major Washington Jackson Houston owned land on the north side of the South Fork of Peachtree Creek, in what is now the North Druid Hills CDP.
& north of the South Branch of Peachtree Creek.
( This is derived from its main road of Peachtree Street, and New York being the " Big Apple ", as well as Atlanta being the " New York of the South "; the callsign is now on WPCH-TV 17. 1 as " Peachtree TV " in Atlanta.
Weaker portions of the signal include Rome and Dalton in northwest Georgia, Peachtree City south of Atlanta, and Anderson, South Carolina.
South of the connector, 9 and 19 continue on two one-way streets: West Peachtree Street northbound and Spring Street southbound.
* Kiewit Infrastructure South Co., Peachtree City, Georgia
* Peachtree Publishers of children's books, consumer reference, and guidebooks about the American South ; based in Atlanta
Its two major tributaries are the North Fork Peachtree Creek and the South Fork Peachtree Creek.
South and Creek
It is claimed that the saloon, named after the nearby Black Stump Run and Black Stump Creek, was an important staging post for traffic to north-west New South Wales and it became a marker by which people gauged their journeys.
Although the Period takes its name from the Ediacara Hills where geologist Reg Sprigg first discovered fossils of the eponymous biota in 1946, the type section is located in the bed of the Enorama Creek within Brachina Gorge in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, at.
The lower boundary GSSP of the Ediacaran is at the base of the cap carbonate ( Nuccaleena Formation ), immediately above the Elatina diamictite in the Enorama Creek section, Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
It is now possible to travel overland to Suriname by taking the ferry on the Guyana side at Moleson Creek and crossing the Corentyne River over to Suriname at South Drain.
Also, he oversaw the " Trail of Tears ", which involved the expulsion of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina to the Oklahoma territory.
At Crow Creek, South Dakota, as noted, archaeologists found a mass grave of ' more than 500 men, women, and children who had been slaughtered, scalped, and mutilated during an attack on their village a century and a half before Columbus's arrival ( ca.
In 1838, at least twenty-eight Aborigines were murdered at the Myall Creek in New South Wales, resulting in the unprecedented conviction and hanging of seven white settlers by the colonial courts.
South of Alamosa it is joined by several streams from the west including the Alamosa River and the Conejos River and Culebra Creek from the east.
Ives led his party east into the Canyon — they may have been the first Europeans to travel the Diamond Creek drainage and traveled eastwards along the South Rim.
The county is bordered to the north by the Mason-Dixon Line with Pennsylvania, to the south by the Potomac River and the states of Virginia and West Virginia, to the west by Sideling Hill Creek and Allegany County, Maryland, and to the east by Frederick County and South Mountain.
Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Creek ( Sweetwater County, Wyoming ) | Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906.
From South Pass the trail continues southwest crossing Big Sandy Creek ( about wide and deep ) before hitting the Green River.
It leaves the main trail about west of South Pass and heads almost due west crossing Big Sandy Creek and then about of waterless of very dusty desert before reaching the Green River near the present town of La Barge.
In the summer of 1857, a party of Spanish-speaking gold seekers from New Mexico worked a placer deposit along the South Platte River about 5 miles ( 8 kilometers ) above Cherry Creek in what is today Denver.
Upon reaching Bent's Fort, they turned to the northwest, reaching the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte on May 23.
The first decade of the boom was largely concentrated along the South Platte River at the base of the mountains, the canyon of Clear Creek in the mountains west of Golden City, at Breckenridge and in South Park at Como, Fairplay, and Alma.
It ended in 1717 with peace treaties between South Carolina and the Creek.
Jubilee Park and the Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve in Daylesford, Cook Park in Orange, New South Wales and Carisbrook's Deep Creek park in Victoria both have specimens.
* Crow Creek Indian Reservation in Central South Dakota
Major John Sedgwick led part of the expedition up the Arkansas River, and via Fountain Creek to the South Platte River.
The central business district is located on a peninsula extending into South Arm formed by Sydney River on the west side and Muggah Creek on the east side.
Most canals are extensions to the Nerang River, but there are more to the south along Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek and to the north along the Gold Coast Broadwater, South Stradbroke Island, Coomera River and southern Moreton Bay.
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