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Mount Pocono in Monroe County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
 

Veterans Memorial

 
 
Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., January 26, 2019
1. Veterans Memorial
Inscription.

In memory of those
who served in the Armed Forces
of their country

 
Erected 1948 by Mount Pocono Rotary Club.
 
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & PatriotismWar, US CivilWar, World IWar, World II. In addition, it is included in the Rotary International series list.
 
Location. 41° 7.41′ N, 75° 21.466′ W. Memorial is in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, in Monroe County. It is on Pocono Boulevard (Pennsylvania Route 611) north of Center Avenue/School Street, on the right when traveling north. Memorial is on the Mount Pocono Borough Office grounds. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1361 Pocono Boulevard, Mount Pocono PA 18344, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Pocono Mountains and in Greater Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, in Appalachia, and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The Sullivan Expedition Against The Iroquois Indians 1779 (approx. 3.1 miles away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 4.2 miles away); The Flood of 1955 (approx. 4½ miles away); Hungry Hill Monument (approx. 4.6 miles away); Hungry Hill (approx. 4.6 miles
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away); Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad (approx. 4.9 miles away); Naomi Pines House (approx. 5.2 miles away); Pocono Pines Assembly (approx. 5½ miles away).
 
Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., January 26, 2019
2. Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on January 26, 2019. It was originally submitted on January 26, 2019, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 302 times since then and 6 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on January 26, 2019, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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