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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CX_the-birthplace-of-hbo_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
In November of 1972, 365 subscribers of Service Electric Cable TV became the first subscribers to Home Box Office. By participating in the launch of the nation's premiere pay television service, these citizens of Wilkes Barre became part of comm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CW_americas-first-jazz-festival_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
On February 23, 1951 history was made in Wilkes-Barre. Eight jazz bands got together for "The Cavalcade of Dixieland Jazz" which became the country's first Jazz Festival. On this occasion April 29, 1994 the City of Wilkes-Barre acknowledges and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CT_birthplace-of-the-aime_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
On May 16, 1871, eight men from Wilkes-Barre, 11 other Pennsylvanians, and three New Yorkers - all professional mining and metallurgical engineers - gathered in Wilkes-Barre to discuss "two great objectives: First, the more economical production o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CS_the-fine-arts-fiesta_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
The oldest full scale arts festival in Pennsylvania was founded in 1956 by Annette Evans and Alfred S. Groh to provide an annual celebration of the arts in the Wyoming Valley area. In the original plan the founders desired to guarantee that Fiesta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27BZ_109th-field-artillery-battalion-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
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This battery of
four three inch guns
is placed here
in loving memory of the
thirty-three men of the
109th Field Artillery BN,
mustered into federal service
5 September 1950,
killed in the wreck
of their troop train on
11 Septe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27BY_christopher-columbus_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
Donated by Sons of Italy in America
Francesco Ferruccio Lodge #1397
to the Citizens of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Commemorating the Quincentennial
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27BC_4th-5th-7th-8th-wards-wwii-honor-roll-a-war-memorial_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
This tree is a living memorial
to those who made the
supreme sacrifice in
World War II
William F. Dreisbach · Edward Mason
Frank Ellman · Leo Pappas
Oscar H. Schaefer · Douglas Nesbitt
Peter W. Lynch · …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26Z0_world-wars-memorial-a-war-memorial_Shickshinny-PA.html
In honor of all those
who served from
Shickshinny and Vicinity
in World Wars I and II
Soldier rest! The warfare o'er
dream of fighting fields no more.
Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking,
morn of toil, nor night of waking.
In Memory
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26XW_mocanaqua_Shickshinny-PA.html
Founded as a coal-company town around 1882 by the West End Coal Company. Named for Frances Slocum, a girl from Wilkes-Barre, who was kidnapped by Indians after the Battle of Wyoming in 1778.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26XV_war-memorial_Shickshinny-PA.html
This memorial is dedicated
to our valiant comrades
who died on the field of battle
and
to all who served the flag of the
United States of America
in all its wars.
Rest comrades! Rest and sleep,
the thoughts of men should be
as sentinels…