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A Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission sign commemorating one of the darkest events in Johnstown’s history, the 1923 Rosedale banishment, was officially displayed for the first time on Thursday.

An official blue-and-yellow, cast-aluminum state historical marker commemorating “The Rosedale Banishment” was installed at Hinckston Run Reservoir on Tuesday.

A century to the day from when Blacks and Mexicans who had not lived in Johnstown for at least seven years were banished and the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses

A century to the day from when Blacks and Mexicans who had not lived in Johnstown for at least seven years were banished and the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses

Two events are scheduled to take place in Johnstown on Sept. 7 to commemorate what Gov. Josh Shapiro recently officially proclaimed to be Rosedale Banishment Remembrance Day.

Two events are scheduled to take place in Johnstown on Sept. 7 to commemorate what Gov. Josh Shapiro recently officially proclaimed to be Rosedale Banishment Remembrance Day.

Thomas McNair hasn’t lived in the Johnstown area for decades, but the 85-year-old still remembers the neighborhood of his youth – Rosedale.

Thomas McNair hasn’t lived in the Johnstown area for decades, but the 85-year-old still remembers the neighborhood of his youth – Rosedale.

Mayor Joseph Cauffiel forever transformed the economic and cultural identity of Johnstown when, on Sept. 7, 1923, he ordered all Black and Mexican people who had lived in the city

Sometime back in the 1990s, Mary Carol “Butchie” Edwards read a column in The Tribune-Democrat about the 1923 Rosedale incident and, much to her surprise, saw the name “Joseph Grachan.”