Editing Shamokin, Pennsylvania (section)

===20th-21st century===
In 1905, resident William A. Conway wrote ''Murder at Hickory Ridge'', a [[dime novel]], hoping to cash in on their popularity. It was a fictionalized account of an unsolved murder in the Shamokin area. His two brothers, Alphonsus E. and John J., printed the book on a press in their garage. They continued their business, starting the Conway Print Shop. With the profits from the novel, the Conways started the Black Diamond Publishing Company in 1905 and founded ''Black Diamond Magazine'' to disseminate news of the [[anthracite]] coal region. They developed a way to print a roll of tickets, planning to market them to the movie theaters being built in the area. To meet a request by the nearby Hazleton Baseball Club, they partnered with merchant Nicholas R. Ludes to make a big purchase of colored paper.<ref name="natl.ticket"/>

Together the Conway brothers and Ludes founded what became the National Ticket Company in Shamokin in 1907. At one time it was the nation's largest ticket manufacturing company. Its first production facility was built in 1911 at the corner of Pearl and Webster Streets. A 1942 fire gutted the plant, although the brick shell still stands. The replacement building at Pearl Street and Ticket Avenue was completed in 1950 and has since served as company headquarters. The business is still owned by descendants of the Conway and Ludes families. In the 21st century National Ticket has developed international customers.<ref name="natl.ticket">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalticket.com/history  |title=Our History |publisher=National Ticket Company |date=2016 }}</ref>

Shamokin was formally incorporated as a city on February 21, 1949.

Edgewood Park, also known as Indian Park, operated in Shamokin as an increasingly popular amusement park from 1905 through the late 1950s, featuring a roller coaster and other rides and entertainments, and attracting regional crowds. Its {{convert|97|acre|ha}} included a large pond. Faced with different needs in the 1950s, the Shamokin area school district developed this property for new elementary and high schools.

The [[Victoria Theatre (Shamokin, Pennsylvania)|Victoria Theatre]] in town was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] maintained by the [[United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Department of the Interior]] in 1985. It was demolished in 1999 and delisted in 2004.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>