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Great Shamokin Path Pennsylvania Historical Marker on Pennsylvania Route 150 west of Lock Haven. The Great Shamokin Path (also known as the "Shamokin Path") was a major Native American trail in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania that ran from the native village of Shamokin (modern-day Sunbury) along the left bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River north and then west to the Great Island (near ...
Shamokin (/ ʃ ə ˈ m oʊ k ɪ n /; Saponi Algonquian Schahamokink: "place of crawfish") (Lenape: Shahëmokink [1]) was a multi-ethnic Native American trading village on the Susquehanna River, located partially within the limits of the modern cities of Sunbury and Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania.
Shamokin has two small creeks that divide the town. Carbon Run merges with Shamokin Creek in the north of the town and empties into the Susquehanna River just south of Shamokin Dam near Sunbury. The city has a warm-summer humid continental climate ( Dfb ) and average monthly temperatures range from 25.9 °F (−3.4 °C) in January to 71.1 °F ...
Shamokin was established in central Pennsylvania by Lenape who were displaced from their traditional homeland along the Delaware river by growing colonial communities in the early 18th century. The earliest reference to thec town is in 1711, when the Shawnee chief Opessa Straight Tail is recorded as marrying Polly, the daughter of Sassoonan ...
Pennsylvania Route 61 (PA 61) is an 81.8-mile-long (131.6 km) state highway that is located in Pennsylvania in the United States. The route is signed north-south despite running in a northwest-southeast direction from U.S. Route 222 Business (US 222 Bus.) in Reading to US 11/US 15/PA 147 in Shamokin Dam.
Shamokin Dam Volunteer Fire Department, Company 90, the station house can be found at 3343 North Old Trail. The Americus Community Ambulance Service, which is based in Sunbury, is the primary ambulance service for those living in Shamokin Dam. Call 911 for all emergencies. The closest hospital is Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg.
Shamokin Township, Pennsylvania; Shamokin (village), 18th century Native American settlement near the site of present Sunbury; Great Shamokin Path, a Native American trail; Shamokin Area School District, a public school district in Northumberland County; Shamokin Valley Railroad, in Northumberland County; Shamokin Creek, a tributary of the ...
The dam is located just below the confluence of the West and North Branches of the Susquehanna, between the towns of Shamokin Dam and Sunbury. The dam is 2,100 feet (640 m) long. When it is raised in the summer, it creates the 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) Lake Augusta , which is used for recreation. [ 4 ]