7 окт. 2015 г. · Patricia Thorpe claimed the body the night before a traditional Sac and Fox burial ceremony could take place in Oklahoma. Thorpe's remains were ...

His body was placed in a mausoleum in Shawnee waiting for a final resting place. Approval of a plan was nixed by the State. The town of Mauch Chunk, ...

8 авг. 2015 г. · Jim Thorpe, the man, is buried in Jim Thorpe, the place — though the man had never been to the place while breathing.

21 июн. 2023 г. · Did you know that Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes of all time, is buried in Carbon County, Pennsylvania?

22 окт. 2023 г. · Thorpe himself never set foot in the town while he was alive. After he died in 1953, most of his family wanted him buried in Oklahoma.

Legendary athlete Jim Thorpe is buried in Jim Thorpe, PA - a town he may never have even visited. Before renaming itself Jim Thorpe the town of Mauch Chunk, PA ...

28 июл. 2016 г. · IN A CLEARING on a grassy hillside near a two-lane highway in eastern Pennsylvania lie the bones of Jim Thorpe, the man considered by many ...

29 июл. 2016 г. · Though buried in eastern Pennsylvania, Thorpe's grave sits on mounds of soil from Oklahoma and from Stockholm, where Thorpe won his Olympic ...

His remains are kept in a mausoleum surrounded by statues and interpretive signage. Thorpe's surviving sons have been fighting to move the ...

20 окт. 2015 г. · Today, Jim still lies in the middle of a circular driveway surrounded by trees. There are two bronze statues — Jim dashing with a football; Jim ...