Last updated: March 2, 2024
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"No pen can describe...." Wayside
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Description of Wayside: The wayside is 36 x 24 inches and is surrounded by black metal. It has a black rectangular base with two rectangular pillars supporting the panel. The wayside along the Walk Through the Ruins trail.
Wayside Layout: At the top of the wayside is a thin black banner with white text. To the left is "Johnstown Flood National Memorial". To the right is the National Park Service arrowhead. The title of the wayside is below the black banner in large black font. The panel has a cream-colored background. There is one column of text in an image that takes up the panel.
Wayside Title: No pen can describe....
Text: Well, the reservoir came, and Johnstown went visiting. Some of us on very long visits indeed- never to come back. All that is left to most of us is the ground the town was built on, and even that is not the same. Johnstown Tribune, June 14, 1889.
Image: A man sitting downstream from the remains of the South Fork Dam. A dashed line shows the elevation of the breast of the dam at 72ft.
Wayside Layout: At the top of the wayside is a thin black banner with white text. To the left is "Johnstown Flood National Memorial". To the right is the National Park Service arrowhead. The title of the wayside is below the black banner in large black font. The panel has a cream-colored background. There is one column of text in an image that takes up the panel.
Wayside Title: No pen can describe....
Text: Well, the reservoir came, and Johnstown went visiting. Some of us on very long visits indeed- never to come back. All that is left to most of us is the ground the town was built on, and even that is not the same. Johnstown Tribune, June 14, 1889.
Image: A man sitting downstream from the remains of the South Fork Dam. A dashed line shows the elevation of the breast of the dam at 72ft.