Jermyn Memorial Garden is composed of Circles of Life with remembrance bricks encircled by living memorial plants and trees, engraved with historic and civic-minded sentiments for residents, former residents, and friends of Jermyn who have made the history of Jermyn live on for future generations. The First Aid Memorial Life Circle, with the First Aid monument remembering the 25 men who organized first aid in America in 1899, is surrounded by bricks honoring miners and families. The Veterans Memorial Life Circle, with the Veterans monument, was erected by the William J. Griffith American Legion Post #465 and is dedicated to Jermyn's fallen brave men, with bricks honoring servicemen and women and families encircling it. The Civic Memorial Life Circle, with the Walk Way monument honoring John Jermyn, founder and first mayor, 1870, contains a borough time capsule entombed below, placed there by the Shade Tree Commission, and is bordered by bricks dedicated to civic volunteers, church congregations, merchants, and families. The garden stands in front of the Jermyn Community Center, originally Jermyn High School, dedicated in 1937 with Raymond J. Truscott as principal; it later became Lakeland Jointure High School and also served as a Lakeland elementary school before being turned over to the community in 1980. Its black iron fence along the front edge is a remnant of the antique 1937 school property fence. The Jermyn Shade Tree Commission, in partnership with the borough council, American Legion, First Aid Centennial Committee, and the residents of Jermyn, created and landscaped this serene historic memorial garden as a witness to the pride, principles, and progression of the Jermyn community, and it was dedicated on May 25, 2003.