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Montrose is a borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, 37 miles (60 km) north by west of Scranton.
The first courthouse was assembled a year later, and Montrose was incorporated as a borough from part of Bridgewater Township on March 29, 1824. Its name is a combination of "mont", the French word for "mountain" and Rose, for Dr.
It is the governmental center of county of Susquehanna County. The region of Montrose is notable for its many quarry sites.
The town, along with Susquehanna County, is best known as the locale of momentous Marcellus shale drilling, putting Montrose in the center of the bourgeoning natural gas trade of the 21st century.
Montrose was incorporated as a town and seat of Susquehanna County in 1824, but families began immigrating to the region in the mid-18th century, primarily from areas along the Connecticut River Valley (western Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont).
After the war, there was pent-up territory hunger and many inhabitants wanted some of the affordable territory in Pennsylvania.
In a very short reconstructionof time, the first families assembled Montrose in the style of their home New England towns: large colonial style homes encircling churches, and both centered on a chief street.
Several townsfolk and small-town historians claim that Montrose played a momentous part in the Northern Trail of the Underground Railroad, and that a several escaped slaves families were homed temporarily in town.
Folklore has it that many of these families remained in Montrose or Susquehanna County after the War.
Numerous small-town inhabitants sought historical landmark status for their homes in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries based on small-town lore about the Railroad, but many were denied by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission due to lack of evidence that the rumored affairs took place.
Several academic historians believe that, while the possibility of a family or two stopping in Montrose along the Northern Trail is plausible, the increase in black population in the county after the Civil War was more likely the result of citizens being thriving to jobs in the then-bourgeoning coal trade just south of the county.
The Susquehanna County Historical Society and the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies (housed in one of the suspected former Railroad homes) remain dedicated to identifying and analyzing major documents of the time.
Due to increased revenues in town, the Montrose hospital (the only primary hospital in Susquehanna County) was moved from an old and small facility downtown to a large, advanced facility just outside town.
The town's Sylvanus Mulford House, Silver Lake Bank, and Susquehanna County Courthouse Complex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Montrose Historic District was added in 2011.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), all land.
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,617 citizens , 754 homeholds, and 399 families residing in the borough.
In the borough the populace was spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 56.8% from 18 to 64, and 21.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the borough was $37,125, and the median income for a family was $48,867.
Montrose is linked to the primary highway in the area, Interstate 81, by only one winding road, Pennsylvania Route 706.
Montrose is linked also by road to Friendsville, Little Meadows, and South Montrose.
Jonathan Jasper Wright, lived here as a youth and became the first African American to pass the Pennsylvania bar; went South with the American Missionary Association after the Civil War and served as head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Beaufort, South Carolina; and was propel associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Susquehanna County Historical Society.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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