Talk:Shamokin, Pennsylvania
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Although Groucho Marx made a joke about it on "You Bet Your Life," "Shamokin" has nothing to do with smoking. Sha- and its variants generally mean "Place of the..." Thus: CHIcago, SHEboygan, SHAmokin. Chemung — Also a river, a hamlet and the county where they reside, Chemung comes from the discovery of a mammoth tusk near the riverbed — a “big horn” to the Native Americans who called it “Shumounk” from the Algonquin words for horn and place — place of the big horn. Billbrock 02:34, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
- Got your attention, huh? Use to be a big breaker there called Glen Burn, Route 61, not sure what happened to it. Use to see it driving up to Penn State/ State college. Have no idea what this town is doing these days, Like most the hey day is over in the area. Shame. "Whats Shamokin?" Cheers Scott 19:03, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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- Glen Burn stopped operations circa what, 1961? It was torn down maybe a decade ago; a local would know. Re bogus etymologies: the point of Wikipedia is not to elicit attention from readers, but to share information with readers. Billbrock 01:03, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
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You are right. Scott 01:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm deleting the History of the Lenape Chiefs; of course it's important to PA history, but of virtually no relevance to the Land of Coney Island. Billbrock 22:39, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] To Do List
History
- Molly Maguires - Great Railroad Strike of 1877 - UMW - decline of anthracite —Preceding unsigned comment added by Billbrock (talk • contribs) 16:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 1877 Riots
Re proposed article 1877 Shamokin Uprising, not sure that this deserves an article separate from the Great RR Strike of 1877. Some twenty years ago, I spent a couple days reading microfilm newspaper articles on the 1877 riots in the Pottsville library. This book http://www.amazon.com/1877-Violence-Robert-V-Bruce/dp/0929587057 is a good intro to the topic. Billbrock (talk) 00:14, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Let me bite my tongue: 1877 Shamokin Uprising (which I just saw) is an EXCELLENT start! The goal would be to integrate this account into the history of Shamokin.
