When was johnstown pa established

Ethnic Heritage Attractions. Cambria City. Wagner-Ritter House and Garden. Cambria City Churches. Source: explorepahistory. Joseph himself consistently spelled his name "Schantz" on all extant deeds that we have.

For two generations, courthouse recorders Anglicized the name to "Johns" in the legal documents, such as deeds and federal censuses. In one deed it was Anglicized to Johnston and in another to Jones. However, most deeds listing the family in the first two generations Anglicized the name to "Johns.

Horace Rose, the first mayor of Johnstown, to say at Johnstown's centennial celebration, "While [Johns] did not seem to be sure of his correct name, he knew a good dollar when he saw it" History of the Centennial Celebration of Johnstown, Pa.

They were encouraged to live in certain neighborhoods, particularly Cambria City and Minersville for more about the history of Cambria City, including current photos of historic buildings and churches, see the Walking Tour of Cambria City, which is part of the Visitor Resources section of this Web site.

Additional neighborhoods dominated by immigrants sprung up, including Prospect and Conemaugh. Living conditions were unsanitary, and infant mortality was high. Better jobs, with higher wages, safer working conditions and the opportunity to advance, were offered to native-born Americans first, and then immigrants from Wales, Scandinavia, Ireland and Germany.

Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were forced to take jobs with lower wages and worse working conditions. Most had been peasant farmers in the Old Country, accustomed to working outside. The work in the mills and mines was dangerous, especially for these untrained workers, and many industrial accidents occurred.

The management grouped immigrants by nationality into work crews so that they could communicate in their native languages — and also to prevent them from organizing.

In most cases, every member of an immigrant family had to work. Women ran boarding houses and gardened for fresh vegetables, helped by their daughters, while boys often left school early to work in the mills and mines alongside their fathers. Jewish families worked together at the stores they established. Economic survival in Johnstown remained a family effort until at least World War II — family goals were pursued as opposed to individual goals. Excluded from mainstream Johnstown culture, immigrants founded their own social and fraternal institutions.

Initially, Eastern and Southern European immigrants created institutions that served newcomers regardless of national origin — but as their numbers increased, these institutions separated by ethnicity. Instead of village-based identities of the Old Country, immigrants to Johnstown identified with their ethnic or nationality group. You can boat whitewater in the Stonycreek Canyon; ride our byways; bicycle country lanes, mountain bike single-track and cycle rail-trails; hike atop our lush ridges; and boat, fish, or swim in lakes once owned by steel companies.

Johnstown is located just 70 miles east of Pittsburgh an easy drive on U.