Historic Business
J. H. & C. K. Eagle Silk Company
The Eagle company’s Shamokin mill became one of the city’s major textile workplaces, remembered today through maps, a historical study, and its preserved bell and sculptural eagle.
A Textile Business in Shamokin
The Eagle Silk Mill study places the Shamokin complex within the company’s regional textile enterprise and documents its importance as an industrial workplace.
A Large Industrial Footprint
Sanborn maps preserve the mill within Shamokin’s built industrial landscape. The complex became a familiar landmark as well as a place of work.
The Company’s Surviving Symbols
The mill itself is gone, but its three-ton bell and sculptural eagle were saved. Those objects give the company’s business history a visible public presence today.
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