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Shamokin Mural Tour - SABER, Shamokin Area Businesses for Economic Revitalization, and the City of Shamokin invite you to take a mural tour of the city. Sponsored by the Northumberland County Council for the Arts & Humanities (NCCAH), this series of murals was created by local artists to bring beauty to the area as well as to pay homage to the ...
This city continues to live up to its rich culture and past by welcoming visitors interested in Shamokin’s lively spirit and vibrant community. Stay tuned and prepare your travel plan with this list of the best things to do in Shamokin, PA.
Shamokin, city, Northumberland county, east-central Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies along Shamokin Creek. Founded in 1835 by the coal speculators John C. Boyd and Ziba Bird, it was early known as Boyd’s Stone-coal Quarry, Boydtown, and New Town. The present name, selected by Boyd, is a derivation of one of two Delaware Indian words, one meaning “place of eels” and the other “where horns are ...
Then followed a rapid influx of population, diverse in language, nationality, and creed, but homogeneous in the purpose of lending their common energies to the work, and thus Shamokin, the largest town in Northumberland county, has reached its present proportions.
