Hazleton, Pennsylvania Hazleton A view of Downtown Hazleton from the south A view of Downtown Hazleton from the south Nickname(s): The Mountain City, Mob City, The Power City Hazleton is positioned in Pennsylvania Hazleton - Hazleton Hazleton is a town/city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The populace of Greater Hazleton (the region in and around the city) was 77,187. Hazleton is the 2nd biggest city in Luzerne County and the 17th biggest city in Pennsylvania. 2.1 Greater Hazleton 6.1 Hazleton Area School District Hazleton An entrepreneur titled Jacob Drumheller decided that this intersection was the perfect locale for a rest stop, so in 1809, he assembled the first building in what would later be known as Hazleton.
Anthracite coal mined from Hazleton was shipped via the Lehigh Canal to Bethlehem Steel Corporation amid the American Industrial Revolution.
Pardee, knowing that the region of Beaver Meadows was already controlled by Coxe and Beach, bought many acres of the territory in present-day Hazleton.
Pardee will forever be known as the beginning father of Hazleton.
Pardee incorporated the Hazleton Coal Company in 1836, the same year the rail link to the Lehigh Valley market was on the brink of being completed.
The Hazleton Coal Company assembled the first school on Church Street, where Hazleton City Hall is now located.
Pardee also assembled the first church in Hazleton (located at the intersection of Church and Broad Streets).
The coal mined in Hazleton helped establish the United States as a world industrialized power, primarily fueling the massive blast furnaces at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Many small business towns, often referred to by locals as "patch towns" or "patches," surrounded Hazleton.
The following is a list of "patch towns" in and around Hazleton: West Hazleton, established by Conrad Horn Jeddo, titled after a Japanese port to which coal was exported by the Hazleton Coal Company Hollywood, part of Hazleton, titled before Hollywood, California Weatherly, a small borough outside of Hazleton Hazleton was incorporated as a borough on January 5, 1857.
"Hazelton" was intended to be the borough's name, but a clerk misspelled it amid its incorporation, and the name "Hazleton" has been used ever since.
Hazleton was incorporated as a town/city on December 4, 1891.
In 1891, Hazleton became the third town/city in the United States to establish a citywide electric grid.
On September 10, 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazleton.
The Duplan Silk Corporation opened in Hazleton and became the world's biggest silk mill. The garment trade thrived and was invested in by New York mobster Albert Anastasia. In 1947, Autolite Corporation was looking to grew operations in the East, and had been looking into Hazleton.
Officials from Autolite came to the region to survey it and in their report, they noted Hazleton is a "mountain wilderness" with no primary water route, rail route, trucking route, or airport.
Because of CAN-DO's accomplishments, Hazleton was given the All-America City Award in 1964.
Hazleton's economy is now based largely on manufacturing and shipping, facilitated by the relative closeness to Interstates 80 and 81.
Five Pennsylvania highways also run through the Hazleton region (including Pennsylvania Route 309, Pennsylvania Route 93, Pennsylvania Route 924, Pennsylvania Route 424, and Pennsylvania Route 940).
News & World Report) was entitled "Letter from Pennsylvania: A town in need of a tomorrow" which reported Hazleton's shortcomings to the world.
Altamont Hotel, Hazleton In 2006, Hazleton attained national consideration as Republican Mayor Lou Barletta and council members passed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act. This ordinance was instituted to discourage hiring or renting to illegal immigrants.
Mayor Lou Barletta of Hazleton estimated that as "many as half" of the estimated 10,000 Hispanics who were living in Hazleton left the town/city when the ordinance was passed. The copy was veiled by the tv program 60 Minutes in 2006 and the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor in March 2007. As of 2015, nearly 40 percent of Hazleton's populace is of Hispanic/Latino descent. Over half of Hazleton's Hispanic populace is of Dominican descent (making up 21% in 2010).
Hazleton has the highest percentage of Dominicans in Pennsylvania and the fourth highest in the nation.
Many Dominicans had moved to Hazleton from portions of New York City (including the Bronx and Brooklyn) and parts of northern New Jersey (such as Newark and Paterson). Many of these migrants had families that were mostly large.
In 2012, Amilcar Arroyo (a Hazleton Integration Project board member) estimated that 80% of Hazleton's Hispanics and Latinos were of Dominican origins, and that many of them had lineage from San Jose de Ocoa. Many Hispanic and Latino businesses are on Wyoming Street. In 2016, Michael Matza of the Philadelphia Inquirer stated that as a result of the influx of Hispanics, the Wyoming Street corridor was revived from a moribund state.
A topographic map showing the terrain in and around Hazleton.
Hazleton is positioned at 40 57 32 N 75 58 28 W (40.958834, 75.974546). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.0 square miles (16 km2), all of it land.
Hazleton is positioned 12 miles (19 km) north of Tamaqua and 30 miles (48 km) south of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
The town/city is positioned in Pennsylvania's ridge and valley section (on a plateau titled Spring Mountain).
Hazleton's highest altitude is 1886 feet above sea level, making it one of the highest incorporated metros/cities east of the Mississippi River and the highest incorporated town/city in Pennsylvania.
Hazleton and its encircling communities are collectively known as Greater Hazleton.
Greater Hazleton encompasses an region located inside three counties: southern Luzerne County, northern Schuylkill County, and northern Carbon County.
The populace of Greater Hazleton was 77,187 at the 2010 census.
Greater Hazleton includes the City of Hazleton; the boroughs of Beaver Meadows, Conyngham, Freeland, Jeddo, Mc - Adoo, Weatherly, West Hazleton, White Haven; the townships of Black Creek, Butler, East Union, Kline, Foster, Hazle, Rush, Sugarloaf; and the towns, villages, or CDPs of Audenried, Coxes Villages, Drifton, Drums, Ebervale, Eckley, Fern Glen, Haddock, Harleigh, Harwood Mines, Hazle Brook, Highland, Hollywood, Hometown, Hudsondale, Humboldt Village, Humboldt Industrial Park, Japan, Jeansville, Junedale, Kelayres, Kis-Lyn, Lattimer, Milnesville, Nuremberg, Oneida, Pardeesville, Quakake, St.
Panoramic view of Hazleton overlooking Downtown and the southern section of the city.
Almost all of the populace growth in Hazleton (from 2000 to 2010) consisted of Hispanics and Latinos. All of Hazleton's primary mining and garment industries have disappeared over the past 50 years.
Coca-Cola, American Eagle Outfitters, Hershey, Office Max, Simmons Bedding Company, Michaels, Network Solutions, Auto - Zone, General Mills, Steelcase, WEIR Minerals, EB Brands and Amazon.com are just some of the large companies with distribution, manufacturing, or logistic operations in Hazleton.
El Mensajero serves as one the Hispanic/Latino newspapers of Hazleton.
Hazleton Area School District (in pink) Hazleton High School Hazleton Area Public Library The first school was assembled in the 1830s by the Hazleton Coal Company.
It was a private elementary school at the corner of Church and Green Streets, the present-day site of Hazleton City Hall.
Hazleton High School, the first high school, was assembled in 1875 at Pine and Hemlock Streets, the present-day site of the Pine Street Playground.
Bishop Hafey High School, the Vikings, was Hazleton's only Roman Catholic High School, owned by the Diocese of Scranton.
Hazleton Area School District The Hazleton Area School District (HASD) operates enhance schools serving the town/city limits.
The Hazleton Area School District encompasses approximately 250 square miles (650 km2).
By 2010, the District's populace increased to 72,862 citizens . The educational attainment levels for the Hazelton Area School District populace (25 years old and over) were 83.8% high school graduates and 15.2% college graduates. As of 2015, there were 10,871 pupils in Hazleton Area School District.
There are three schools in Hazleton directed by the HASD: Hazleton Elementary / Middle School All precinct students are zoned to Hazleton Area High School in Hazle Township.
Penn State Hazleton The Greater Hazleton Historical Society and Museum Hazleton Area Public Library Hazleton City Hall An old postcard of a modern cut on the state highway between Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre Public transit is provided by the Hazleton Public Transit, a service of the City of Hazleton's Department of Public Services.
Three Interstate highways run outside the Hazleton area, with associated exits to the city.
There are five primary inbound arteries into Hazleton: While Hazleton presently has no passenger rail service, it is a primary county-wide center for commercial rail traffic, directed by Norfolk Southern Railway.
Hazleton's commercial passenger airport is the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport positioned in Avoca, Pennsylvania.
The Lehigh Valley International Airport also serves Greater Hazleton.
The Hazleton Municipal Airport is the general aviation airport for the city.
An old postcard of Memorial Park (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) Hazleton's annual street festival, Funfest, is jubilated usually amid the second weekend of September.
Many church festivals, including the Festival of the Madonna del Monte at Most Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church in Hazleton, is jubilated to preserve the Italian tradition of Hazleton.
Greater Hazleton Rails To Trails Hazleton was a long-time home to minor baseball.
On April 14, 1934, the Philadelphia Phillies entered into an affiliation agreement with the New York Penn League Hazleton Mountaineers.
This was the first ever minor league affiliation for the Phillies. The last minor-league club to play in Hazleton was the Hazleton Dodgers in 1950, a Brooklyn Dodgers farm-club which played in the Class D North Atlantic League. Markle Banking & Trust Company Building, Hazleton Hazleton's modest horizon is remarkable for a town/city its size.
Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex, 122 South Wyoming Street, Hazleton The Hazleton Cemetery (the Vine Street Cemetery) The Hazleton National Bank Markle Banking & Trust Company Building, tallest building in Hazleton Hazleton has a several sister cities.
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