Veterans & remembrance
Explore this record →A Monument, a Charity Fund, and a Veterans’ Community
Shamokin’s Civil War veterans joined public remembrance with practical support and community organizing.
Shamokin Stories collection
Stories
Accounts of Shamokin’s people, industries, neighborhoods, institutions, and public life.
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Decoration Day at Shamokin’s Soldiers’ Monument, 1871
A procession to the cemetery joined a new monument's dedication with the decoration of soldiers' graves on May 30.
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Preparing Shamokin Cemetery for Memorial Day
Twelve men, nine mowing machines, and new evergreen plantings were part of the cemetery work reported in May 1925.
Veterans & remembranceExplore this record →Service, Ships, and Remembrance
Shamokin’s military history includes naval namesakes and remembrance, an Army medical depot in 1941–42, and the neighborhood work of a wartime Red Cross campaign.
Veterans & remembranceExplore this record →Shamokin and Coal Township Remember Service
A wartime Victory Report preserves separate forms of remembrance for Shamokin Borough and Coal Township, including a joint Gold Star Honor Roll and community sections for Brady, Coal Run, and Boydtown.
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Shamokin Unveils Its Spanish-American War Memorial
A military parade and an unveiling at Market and Lincoln Streets marked the dedication on August 13, 1938.
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Shamokin's Army Medical Depot, 1941–1942
An official Army history records the medical section's July 19, 1941 activation, warehouse space, international-aid mission, and February 1942 closure.
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Vandals Damage the Sixth Ward Honor-Roll Board
A neighborhood veterans' board at Third and Spruce Streets was damaged on the night of October 22, 1950.
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Veterans Fill the Town
Shamokin prepared lights and lodging for the Grand Army of the Republic’s state encampment in February 1890.