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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27EN_a-formal-promenade-across-the-river_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
"The bridges have symbolized man's battle for commerce, growing and enlarging, always moving forward."
Constance Reynolds, "The Market Street Bridges at Wilkes-Barre, PA," lecture before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, 26 October 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27EI_what-on-earth-is-a-levee_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it."
Matthew 7:27
Some know them as levees and others call them dikes, but the large embankments along the river w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27EH_trailing-along_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
"And when I had asked the name of the river from the brakeman, and heard that it was called Susquehanna, the beauty of the name seemed to be part and parcel of the beauty of the land."
Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains, 1879
While few do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27EB_what-on-earth-is-a-levee_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it."
Matthew 7:27
Some know them as levees and others call them dikes, but the large embankments along the river w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27E4_war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
In memory of those who gave
their lives in the service of
their country in World War II.
Lt. Joseph G. Azat 0-820195
Mar. 27, 1927—Oct. 5, 1944
14th and 10th Air Force 312th Wing
33rd Ftr. Grp. 58th Ftr. Sqd.
In recognition of devot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27DZ_bridging-two-cities_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
"It will save to the citizens tens of thousands of dollars that have heretofore been annually lost through interruption of communications by high water, and by removing provocation to profanity will make it much easier for sundry people to reach t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27DV_trailing-along_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
"And when I had asked the name of the river from the brakeman, and heard that it was called Susquehanna, the beauty of the name seemed to be part and parcel of the beauty of the land."
Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains, 1879
While few do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27BZ_109th-field-artillery-battalion-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
(front)
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/HM1ZL3_forty-fort-cemetery-lost-graves-memorial_Forty-Fort-PA.html
On the afternoon of Friday
June 23, 1972
the Susquehanna River
swollen by flood waters of
unprecedented height broke
through the dike at a point
120 yards south of this site.
The swirling water gouged a
four acre chasm out of the
heart …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZKY_wyoming-seminary-presidents-lost-graves-memorial_Forty-Fort-PA.html
This monument erected
by Wyoming Seminary in
memory of four presidents
of the school whose grave
sites were lost in the flood
of June 23, 1972
Rev. Reuben Nelson
President
1844 - 1862 1863 - 1872
Rev. Young C. Smith
President
1862 - 1…