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Theater destroyed in the great fire of 1965.
What is The Strand?
100
Posthumous winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Who is Anthony Damato?
100
Home Brewery of 1900 - 1930.
What is St. Casimir's Playground?
100
According to reports, Local athlete Pat Igo excelled in this popular sport well beyond all others locals.
What is Boxing?
100
Alliterative Term for boys too young to work underground in the mines but who worked long hours picking slate from the chutes of coal flowing down in the Collieries.
What is "Breaker Boys?"
200
Theater that burnt to the ground in 1955.
What is the Capital?
200
Served in the Vatican as Dean of the Roman Rota Also was Prefect of the Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Who is Cardinal Francis Brennan?
200
The Columbia Brewery 1894 - 1968.
What is The Shenandoah High Rise?
200
Through the decade of the 30's, Shenandoah High's Norkmen played their final regular season game on this day.
What is Thanksgiving? Usually against Tamaqua or Mahanoy City.
200
Collapse of its breaker with fatalities in August of 1956 doomed this colliery, named for a precious gemstone, into closure.
What is Kohinoor?
300
Theater for silent movies and talkies in in early days, later converted into a fine dining establishment.
What is the Lyric?
300
He is the only United States President to have visited Shenandoah... well after his terms in office.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
300
Mine owner and prominent citizen William Grant's Mansion.
What is St. Michael's Church?
300
Back in the day... in the sports pages of the Herald... the scribes often described this sports team as Shenandoah's "Sextet"
What is the women's basketball teams. Coached by Josephine Gastin.
300
In 1880, this Colliery's noxious fumes ...emanating from an underground mine fire... proved to be the death of beloved lead citizen of the town, Jonathan Wasley as he went to examine the new found problem.
What is Kehley Run?
400
The theater was best known to us as The Strand, but it was earlier known as The Ferguson Opera House. It also was known by one other name... the name for the theater entrepreneur brothers who ran it.
What is O'Hara's? Arcade then Opera House then Theater.
400
Served as the early Chief of Surgery at the newly opened Locust Mt. State Hospital. He also was recognized as the Father of Shenandoah High School Sports.
Who is Doctor William T. Leach?
400
The Old Brown and later Abraham Lincoln School.
What is the building known as the Employment Office?
400
Prior to 1936, this prevented Shenandoah High's basketball team from gaining entrance into the more legitimate leagues in the region... ... it prevented Shenandoah from achieving the Statewide recognition it achieved in Football.
What is the small size of its HS gym? Cooper HS gym was far from regulation size with no real seating for fans.
400
First colliery established here in 1862, even before the incorporation of the borough.
What is Shenandoah City Colliery?
500
In 1947 the Strand Theater Premiers their movie and the town proclaims it their day but they cannot be present. They are unable to attend this Shenandoah Premiere... instead they are committed to attend one in Harrisburg with the Governor.
Who are the Dorsey Brothers. "Those Fabulous Dorseys!"
500
Shenandoah's best selling novelist who composed works such as "The Last Detail" and "Cinderella Liberty." He also worked on the Hollywood screen plays of the movie versions of these works which starred major luminaries such as Jack Nicholson, James Caan, and Marsha Mason.
Who is Darryl Ponicsan?
500
Shenandoah Little League Field 1940 - 1966.
What is Shenandoah Senior Living Community?
500
This Shenandoah High football alum played along side of Vince Lombardi as one of Fordham University's legendary "Seven Blocks of Granite." He also played professionally with the NFL Cardinals & Bears.
Who is Al Babartsky?
500
Most early mines had independent ownership, but this group created a monopoly with its railroads and its own police force. Not too far into the 20th century it had bought out almost all of the independent mines and wielded great power throughout the anthracite region.
What is the P & R C & I Company. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company.