Avoca in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Veterans Memorial

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 14, 2020

1. Veterans Memorial

Inscription.

Dedicated to
all the
men and women
of
Avoca
who served their country
★ ★ ★
Lest We Forget

[VFW and American Legion Emblems]

Dedicated Nov. 7, 1987

Erected 1987 by McPhillips Widdall American Legion Post 607 and local Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Cold • War, World II.

Location. 41° 20.372′ N, 75° 44.417′ W. Memorial is in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in Luzerne County. It is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 11) and Hawthorne Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street. Marker is next to the World War Veterans Memorial Building (now the Avoca Community Center). Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 800 Main Street, Pittston PA 18641, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region,

in the Wyoming Valley,

and in Greater Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. It is also in the American Northeast,

in the Mid-Atlantic,

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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 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Former Site of St. Mary's Convent (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Memorial to Honor SS Peter and Paul Parish (about 400 feet away); Vietnam War Memorial (approx. 0.2 miles away); Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Centennial (approx. 1.1 miles away); Elias Swartz (approx. 1.1 miles away); PFC Walter Lambert Jr (approx. 1.2 miles away); Holy Mother of Sorrows P.N.C.C. War Memorial (approx. 1.2 miles away); Moosic High School (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Avoca.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 14, 2020

2. Veterans Memorial

At former World War Veterans Memorial Building

Former World War Veterans Memorial Building image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., May 14, 2020

3. Former World War Veterans Memorial Building

South Elevation along Hawthorne Street

Credits. This page was last revised on May 14, 2020. It was originally submitted on May 14, 2020, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 242 times since then and 11 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on May 14, 2020, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.