This Times Leader file photo shows just a fraction of the damage sustained by Forty Fort Cemetery during the 1972 Hurricane Agnes flooding. File Photo ...

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — In the Forty Fort Cemetery, Mary Ann Weitz and her son Brian Weitz paid their respects at a monument marking a mass grave on the 49th anniversary of Hurricane Agnes.

FORTY FORT – A steel barrier protected Forty Fort from the rising Susquehanna River when Tropical Storm Agnes hit the Wyoming Valley in June 1972 – 46 years ago this weekend. Gordon Wil… ...

Aaron Girvan, 17, has been working to properly map out the Forty Fort Cemetery’s ‘Old Yard’ for three years. To do so, he used geographic information system (GIS) mapping tools, took aeriel ...

During construction for a restoration project in Luzerne County, crews uncovered headstones displaced 300 feet from the Forty Fort Cemetery after the 1972 Agnes Flood. On Thursday, the Wyoming ...

History was uncovered in Forty Fort as about 35 headstones washed away by Hurricane Agnas in 1972 were discovered. “They’ve been buried here since last Thursday. Since 1972, for about 52 and a ...

Stories of families surviving and rebuilding after the Agnes Flood of 1972 are the story of the Wyoming Valley itself, according to local author Bryan Glahn. The Agnes Flood, so named after a hurri… ...

FORTY FORT, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Wyoming Valley cemetery has its hands full with dozens of headstones that have been missing for decades. They were discovered just days ago after they ...

He was 17 at the time. He'd just graduated high school. "We thought we ruled the world. We thought we're gonna stop this river, this isn't gonna do anything." ...

Officials said the headstones were displaced during the 1972 Agnes Flood that washed away an ... 35 headstones buried near the creek — about 300 feet from the Forty Fort Cemetery.

FORTY FORT, Pa. — During construction for a restoration project in Luzerne County, crews uncovered headstones displaced 300 feet from the Forty Fort Cemetery after the 1972 Agnes Flood.

Officials said the headstones were displaced during the 1972 Agnes Flood that washed away an ... 35 headstones buried near the creek — about 300 feet from the Forty Fort Cemetery.