Each year before Memorial Day, the Rotary Club fills the field in front of Country Cupboard with flags.
Here's a look at various history and stories related to Memorial Day, in our area:
Note: This is nowhere near a comprehensive list, but will continue to be a work in process.
- The History Of Wearing Poppies For Remembrance Day
- Nurse Helen Fairchild, for whom the Watsontown Bridge is named, grew up in Allenwood, and died while serving as a nurse in France during the first world war.
- The Memorial To The 19 Who Gave Their Lives In WWI & WW2 from the Watsontown Area
- The 18 From The Sunbury Area Who Gave Their Lives in World War I
- George H. Ramer of Lewisburg, Killed in Action in Korea, 1951. Medal of Honor Recipient.
- Wallace Fetzer - When Milton gave one of their own, in World War I
- Five Local Boys Were Killed by One Shell, in 1918
- When 18 Local Boys Were Brought Home For Burial, 1947
- Remembering The Maine. In 1898, more than 200 Navy Crew Men & Officers died when a ship exploded off the banks of Cuba. The explosion triggered the start of the Spanish American War. When the ship was pulled up from the Ocean Floor in 1912, parts were sent to both Danville, and Scranton, to be used in Memorials.
- When The Soldiers Were Welcomed Home, 1919
- Where The Dead Were Buried, Milton Pa (Find lists of many veterans burials)
- On May 28th 1946, The Valley flooded, severely. In all of the stories I read, Memorial Day Services went on as planned - serious flooding did not stop the ceremonies. In Lewisburg, a radio station mistakenly announced they had been cancelled, but the residents showed up anyway (and the ceremony had never been cancelled)
A Plaque at Milton High School lists the students who gave their lives in World War II
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More local history and stories from the Central Susquehanna Valley
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