Johnstown Flood facts

While investigating facts about Johnstown Flood Museum and Johnstown Flood 1889, I found out little known, but curios details like:

In 1936, Pennsylvania placed a 'temporary' tax on all alcohol sales to help out victims of the Johnstown Flood, and that tax is still charged.

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Pennsylvania still charges its citizens an 18% tax on alcohol to pay for damages of the 1936 Johnstown flood.

What year was the johnstown flood?

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what caused the johnstown flood of 1977. Here are 11 of the best facts about Johnstown Flood 1977 and Johnstown Flood Tax I managed to collect.

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1. In 1936, Pennsylvania placed a tax on all alcohol sales to help out victims of the Johnstown Flood...and that tax is STILL charged.

2. Pennsylvania residents pay a "Johnstown Flood Tax" on alcohol—despite the fact that the flood happened 80 years ago.

3. Johnstown Flood, where a town of 30 000 lost 2000 citizens, partially because some rich industrialists made some changes to a dam that made it more vulnerable to breaking. The dam was previously owned by the city before being sold to private interests.

4. Pennsylvania residents pay a tax to support the survivors of the Johnstown Flood. The flood happened 81 years ago.

5. Pennsylvania's 18% alcohol tax started as an emergency 10% alcohol tax to raise funds to rebuild Johnstown, PA after a flood in 1936 (not the big flood which was in 1889). They raised the funds in six years but kept the tax.

6. The Johnstown Flood in 1889. The flood killed 2,209 people and caused US$17 million of damage (about $425 million in 2012 dollars).

7. The Johnstown flood, which killed over 2200 people, at the time (1889) the deadliest natural disaster in US history, was blamed on a private fishing club which owned the reservoir a above the town. Members of the club included industrialists Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon and Henry Clay Frick.

8. Andrew Carnegie And Henry J. Frick helped rebuild Johnstown, PA. After the Johnstown Flood, the multi-millionaires donated thousands in relief efforts and funded town projects.