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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CY_old-ship-zion-church-bell_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
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 …
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/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/HM234M_korean-war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
United States · South Korea
United Nations
This monument is dedicated to all those
men and women from Luzerne County
who served in the
Korean Theater of Operations
during the Korean War.
On land donated by the county commissioner…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM234L_109th-field-artillery-battalion-a-war-memorial_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
Dedicated to the men killed
at Coshocton, Ohio
Sept. 11, 1950
[Honored Dead]
Carl W. Armbruster · Leonard Balonis · John L. Barna
Eugene Carr · John W. Cox · William R. Disbrow
William J. Dougherty &mid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM234C_vietnam-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
To those who served
and those who gave their
lives in South-East Asia during
the Vietnam War 1960 - 1975
[Roll of Honored Dead]
Description of the Sculpture for
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
This Monument of the Vietnam War Memorial for L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM234B_ellen-webster-palmer_Wilkes-Barre-PA.html
"Life is a tool to work with,
not a toy to play with."