Schools & churches
Explore this record →Building Places to Learn
School construction and dedications show different communities preparing new spaces for their students.
Shamokin Stories collection
Stories
Accounts of Shamokin’s people, industries, neighborhoods, institutions, and public life.
Schools & churchesExplore this record →Churches at the Heart of Community Life
Shamokin’s churches became centers of worship, education, mutual support, and neighborhood identity for congregations shaped by the city’s many immigrant communities.
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Finding Their Way in the New High School
On September 4, 1975, Shamokin Area students welcomed a pool and air conditioning while trying to master unfamiliar halls and lockers.
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Four Bishops at the Lourdes High School Dedication
Parishioners filled the new Edgewood school's gymnatorium for its dedication on September 13, 1959.
Schools & churchesExplore this record →Learning for Business
Shamokin Business College and the listed teachers, clerks, bookkeepers, stenographers, and commercial offices show education and office skill becoming visible in the printed industrial city.
Schools & churchesExplore this record →Schools, Alumni, and Student Life
Shamokin’s educational history includes an alumni association organized in 1884, scholarship efforts begun in 1922 and expanded in 1947, and a high-school band whose commemorative record reaches back to spring 1927.
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Students Begin the High School Annex Dedication
The morning of March 25, 1957, brought elementary and high-school pupils into the new annex gymnasium.
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The Cornerstone at St. Mary’s Slovak School
Bishop George L. Leech joined parishioners at Cherry and Webster Streets on September 19, 1937.