Shamokin Stories collection
Accounts of Shamokin’s people, industries, neighborhoods, institutions, and public life.
Ideas recorded for Shamokin’s second century in 1964 now sit beside the 2020 GoShamokin plan, the city’s 2024 exit from Act 47, and continuing street-safety work as milestones in a long process of downtown renewal.
A January 6, 1942 meeting created a cross-community committee whose first announced undertaking was a Red Cross War Fund drive.
The March 24, 1977 Daily Item described HUD funding for acquisition, demolition, rehabilitation, and planned street improvements.
From the 1947 referendum to the 1950 organization of government, Shamokin’s city status arrived through several steps.
More than 200 people attended an August 16, 1972 meeting about rehabilitation, assistance, public works, and the neighborhood's shade trees.
The move toward borough government in 1864 turned a growing community’s ambitions into local offices and elections.
A February 1898 notice reported town council's acceptance of a five-year bid for thirty-five arc lights from the Shamokin Electric Light Company.
Ordinance No. 73, adopted February 18, 1955, directed filing and incorporation steps for a Shamokin redevelopment authority.
Mayor Thomas F. Landy swore in five patrolmen on February 28, 1950, as Shamokin's city police personnel changed.
A printed coal-basin view, an 1873 borough map, an 1884 bird’s-eye image, and the arrival of public water service reveal how rail, streets, industry, and infrastructure shaped early Shamokin.
A June 3, 1976 YMCA meeting brought citizens' plans for petitions into conflict with officials' curb and sidewalk improvements.
Bunker Hill’s rehabilitation program and the dispute over its shade trees place today’s downtown reuse and street plans in a longer history of neighborhood change.
Theodore Roosevelt’s October 1914 journey briefly brought a national political campaign to Shamokin.