Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

1361 Pocono Boulevard, Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

( Memorial is on Pocono Boulevard (Pennsylvania Route 611) north of Center Avenue/School Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1948

Pennsylvania was the site of the deadliest nuclear accident in U.S. history. In 1979, a partial meltdown occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.