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In use by the school era – present
The town's teams were the Shamrocks, and the town kept the emblem after the school that bore it closed. The consolidation of about 1981 ended the Shamrocks as a team but not as the town's sign: the 2015 Stellar Communities projects, as the town's adopted 2022 comprehensive plan lists them, include the "Improvement of Shamrock Alley" among the downtown works — a lane in the commercial district carrying the dead school's mascot as a place-name, a generation after the last Shamrock played. Who first chose the shamrock for the school — and whether it spoke to an Irish strain in the settlement or only to luck — is stated by no carrier reached; the settlement the county histories describe was "chiefly of the sturdy Pennsylvania German stock" (Howard) and "mostly of German ancestry, or what are called Pennsylvania Dutch" (Chapman), which makes the Irish emblem a choice against the demographic grain, and the chooser's reason a named gap whose settler is the town paper's early files.