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"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…
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Historically the interior of Public Square, or as it was known originally the "Town Plot," has served a variety of needs. Laid out in 1733 by Col. John Durkee, it has been the setting for a market house, a fireproof storage building for records,…
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Old Ship Zion Church on Public Square was the first religious assembly hall in Wilkes-Barre. This bell, the first known church bell in Luzerne County, hung in the church until the building was demolished in 1857. The bell was cast in Philadelphia …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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
(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/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 · …
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