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Peter's Cathedral, Downtown Scranton, Scranton City Hall, and Courthouse Square Scranton is positioned in Pennsylvania Scranton - Scranton Scranton is the sixth-largest town/city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading.
With a populace of 77,118, it is the biggest city in the Scranton Wilkes-Barre Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a populace of about 570,000. Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley, and the biggest of the former anthracite coal quarrying communities in a adjoining quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Carbondale.
Scranton was incorporated on February 14, 1856, as a borough in Luzerne County and as a town/city on April 23, 1866.
It became a primary industrial city, a center of quarrying and barns s, and thriving thousands of new immigrants.
Under legislation allowing the copy to be voted by inhabitants of the proposed territory, voters favored the new county by a proportion of 6 to 1, with Scranton inhabitants providing the primary support.
The town/city was designated as the governmental center of county when Lackawanna County was established in 1878, and a judicial precinct was authorized for it in 1879.
The town/city "took its first step toward earning its reputation as the Electric City" when electric lights were introduced in 1880 at Dickson Locomotive Works.
David Spencer, a small-town Baptist minister, later proclaimed Scranton as the "Electric City". Present-day Scranton and its encircling area had been long inhabited by the native Lenape tribe, from whose language "Lackawanna" (or lac-a-wa-na, meaning "stream that forks"), is derived.
In 1778, Isaac Tripp, the area's first known European-American settler, assembled his home here; it still stands in North Scranton, formerly a separate town known as Providence.
Scranton in 1855, as depicted by George Inness's painting The Lackawanna Valley, noting roundhouse of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Scranton, who had worked at Oxford Furnace in Belvidere, New Jersey, established what would turn into Lackawanna Iron & Coal, later developing as the Lackawanna Steel Company.
The Scrantons' firm decided to switch focus to producing T-rails for the Erie; the business soon became a primary producer of rails for the quickly expanding barns s.
In 1851, the Scrantons assembled the Lackawanna and Western Railroad (L&W) northward, with recent Irish immigrants supplying most of the labor, to meet the Erie Railroad in Great Bend, Pennsylvania.
They also invested in coal quarrying operations in the town/city to fuel their steel operations, and to market it to businesses.
In 1856, they period the barns eastward as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W), in order to tap into the New York City urbane market.
This barns , with its core in Scranton, would be Scranton's biggest employer for almost one hundred years.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company assembled a gravity barns in the 1850s through the town/city for the purpose of transporting coal.
The Delaware and Hudson (D&H) Canal Company, which had its own gravity barns from Carbondale to Honesdale, assembled a steam barns that entered Scranton in 1863.
During this short reconstructionof time, the town/city rapidly transformed from a small, agrarian-based village of citizens with New England roots to a multicultural, industrial-based city.
It was incorporated as a town/city of 35,000 in 1866 in Luzerne County, when the encircling boroughs of Hyde Park (now part of the city's West Side) and Providence (now part of North Scranton) were consolidated with Scranton.
Scranton was designated by the state council as the governmental center of county of the newly formed county, which was also established as a separate judicial district, with state judges moving over from Luzerne County after courts were organized in October 1878.
Creation of the new county, which enabled both more small-town control and political patronage, followed the Scranton General Strike of 1877, part of the workforce actions that had swept the nation and were known as the Great Railroad Strike, starting in walkouts by barns workers after wage cuts in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
In Scranton, mineworkers followed the barns men off the job, as did others.
In 1896, the city's various streetcar companies were merged into the Scranton Railway Company, which ran street cars until 1954.
By 1890, three other barns s had assembled lines to tap into the rich supply of coal in and around the city, including the Erie Railroad, the Central Railroad of New Jersey and finally the New York, Ontario and Western Railway (NYO&W).
In the late 1890s, Scranton was home to a series of early International League baseball teams.
Given its industrialized basis, Scranton has had a notable workforce history; various coal worker unions struggled throughout the coal-mining era to advancement working conditions, raise wages, and guarantee fair treatment for workers. The Panic of 1873 and other economic problem caused a nationwide recession and loss of business.
A primary strike of barns workers in August 1877, part of the Great Railroad Strike, thriving workers from the steel trade and quarrying as well, and advanced as the Scranton General Strike.
William Walker Scranton, from the prominent family, was then general manager of Lackawanna Iron and Coal.
He later established Scranton Steel Company.
The workforce issues and expansion of trade in Scranton contributed to Lackawanna County being established by the state council in 1878, with territory taken from Luzerne County.
Scranton was designated as the county seat.
Powderly of the Knights of Labor as mayor of Scranton.
A statue of John Mitchell was installed in his honor on the grounds of the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton, "the site of the Coal Strike of 1902 negotiations in which President Roosevelt participated.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad yards in Scranton, ca.1895 By the United States Enumeration of 1900, the populace of Scranton was about 102,026, making it the third-largest town/city in Pennsylvania and 38th-largest U.S.
The Lackawanna Steel Company and many of its workers were moved to Lackawanna, New York, advanced on Lake Erie just south of Buffalo.
Scranton forged ahead as the capital of the anthracite coal industry.
Attracting the thousands of workers needed to mine coal, the town/city developed new neighborhoods dominated by Italian and Eastern European immigrants, who brought their foods, cultures and religions.
In 1913 the state passed the Davis Act to establish the Bureau of Surface Support in Scranton.
Because of the difficulty in dealing with the coal companies, people organized the Scranton Surface Protection Association, chartered by the Court of Common Pleas on November 24, 1913 "to protect the lives and property of the people of the City of Scranton and the streets of said town/city from injury, loss and damage caused by quarrying and mine caves." In 1915 and 1917, the town/city and Commonwealth sought injunctions to prevent coal companies from undermining town/city streets but lost their cases.
Had leased coal lands to the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Co., an allied interest, which passed the leases on to the Scranton Coal Co.
Areas of central Scranton, the Hill Section, South Side, Pine Brook, Green Ridge and Hyde Park were affected by their quarrying activities.
The enhance transit fitness began to grew beyond the street car lines pioneered by predecessors of the Scranton Railways system.
Its Scranton station, offices, powerhouse and maintenance facility were assembled on the former grounds of the Lackawanna Steel Company, and operations started in 1903.
In 1934, Scranton Railways was re-incorporated as the Scranton Transit Company, reflecting that shift in transit modes. Starting in the early 1920s, the Scranton Button Company (founded in 1885 and a primary manufacturer of shellac buttons) became one of the major manufacturers of phonograph records.
By 1938, the Scranton business was also pressing records for Brunswick, Melotone, and Vocalion.
Cities prospered in the post-war boom, the fortunes and populace of Scranton (and the rest of Lackawanna and Luzerne counties) began to diminish.
The Scranton Transit Company, whose street cars had given the town/city its nickname, transferred all operations to buses as the 1954 holiday season approached; by 1968, it ceased all operations.
The town/city was left without any enhance transit fitness until the Lackawanna County government formed COLTS, which began operations in 1972 with 1940s-era GM busses from New Jersey.
Scranton had been the core of its operations until the Erie Lackawanna consolidation , after which it no longer served in this capacity.
The NYO&W Railroad, which depended heavily on its Scranton branch for freight traffic, was abandoned in 1957.
In 1970, the Secretary of Mines for Pennsylvania suggested that so many underground voids had been left by quarrying underneath Scranton that it would be "more economical" to abandon the town/city than make them safe. In 1973, the last mine operations in Lackawanna County (which were in what is now Mc - Dade Park, and another on the Scranton/Dickson City line) were closed.
Scranton, A City That's Seen Many Come and Go, 24:01, Grapple, Keystone Crossroads Since the mid-1980s the Scranton Cultural Center has directed the architecturally momentous Masonic Temple and Scottish Rite Cathedral, designed by Raymond Hood, as the region's performing arts center.
The Houdini Museum was opened in Scranton in 1990 by nationally known magician Dorothy Dietrich.
In 2003, Hilton Hotels & Resorts opened the Hilton Scranton Hotel & Conference Center at the corner of Adams Avenue & Lackawanna Avenue in the heart of downtown Scranton.
Due to the rage for paranormal-themed televisions shows, a prominent downtown historic Scranton Ghost Walk has been period to operate 365 days a year.
According to The Guardian, the town/city was close to bankruptcy in July 2012, with the wages of all municipal officials, including the mayor and fire chief, being cut to $7.25/hour. Financial consultant Gary Lewis, who lives in Scranton, was quoted as estimating that "on 5 July the town/city had just $5,000 cash in hand." Many are individuals who interval up in Scranton, moved to big metros/cities after high school and college, and decided to return to the region to take favor of its amenities. Scranton Electric Building Scranton City Hall Downtown Scranton at evening Scranton is positioned at 41 24 38 N 75 40 3 W (41.410629, 75.667411). Its total region of 25.4 square miles (66 km2) includes 25.2 square miles (65 km2) of territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of water, as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau.
Scranton is drained by the Lackawanna River. Center City is about 750 feet (229 m) above sea level, although the hilly city's inhabited portions range about from 650 to 1,400 feet (200 to 430 m).
Scranton has six primary identifiable sections: Minooka, West Side, South Side, the Hill Section (a.k.a.
East Scranton), North Scranton, and Downtown.
West Scranton (West Side) (shown in orange) is made up of a group of lesser neighborhoods including Hyde Park, West Mountain (everything north of Keyser Ave.), the Keyser Valley, Bellevue, and Tripp Park.
The East Mountain borders on Lake Scranton, a prominent location for joggers or for taking a nature walk.
The Hill Section is a mainly residentiary section bordering the east side of downtown Scranton, consisting of the region roughly between Jefferson Avenue and Nay Aug Park.
It is home to three of Scranton's universities, including the University of Scranton, Lackawanna College, and the Commonwealth Medical College, as well as the Albright Memorial Library.
Downtown Scranton is the commercial center of Scranton.
Notable sights in downtown include Steamtown National Historic Site, the Electric Trolley Museum, Lackawanna County Courthouse Square, the historic Iron Furnaces, the Radisson Station Hotel (converted from a grand train station), the Masonic Temple and Cultural Center, and the meeting hall.
The Lackawanna River Heritage Trail runs along the Lackawanna River between downtown and West Scranton, giving pedestrian and bike access to the river.
The fire department has eight fire stations, which are positioned in the city's South Side, Central City, the Pinebrook section, West Side, North Scranton, Bull's Head, and on East Mountain.
Police command posts is positioned on South Washington Avenue in downtown Scranton.
Special Units include Arson Investigations, Auto Theft Task Force, Child Abuse Investigation, Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Investigation, Juvenile Unit, Special Investigations Unit, Special Operations Group (SWAT/SOG), Canine Unit, Community Development and Highway Unit. The Police department has recently opened two new satellite stations.
Scranton hosts the command posts of Times-Shamrock Communications, which prints the city's primary newspaper, The Times-Tribune, a Pulitzer Prize-winning broadsheet daily established in 1870.
The Times Leader also prints Go Lackawanna, a Sunday journal serving Scranton and encircling municipalities, and the Weekender is a Wilkes-Barre-based entertainment tabloid with distribution in Scranton.
The Scranton Post is a weekly general interest broadsheet which bills itself as the city's first online newspaper.
Scranton's experienced sports date to 1887, when the minor-league Scranton Indians became the city's first experienced baseball team.
Many more followed, including squads in the Pennsylvania State League, Eastern League, Atlantic League, New York State League, New York Penn League and the New York Pennsylvania League.
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Rail - Riders of the International League play their home games at PNC Field in Moosic, south of Scranton.
In football, the Scranton Eagles, a semi-pro/minor league team, dominate their Empire Football League, having won 11 championships. The former arena football Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers, who played eight seasons at the Mohegan Sun Arena (formerly Wachovia Arena) in Wilkes-Barre Township had made the playoffs in their last six years of existence and contended for the Arena - Cup VIII in 2007 and the Arena - Cup X in 2009, their final year, but lost both times. Another semi-pro/minor league team the North East Pennsylvania Miners of the Big North East Football Federation started play in the region in 2007. Scranton previously had pro basketball teams, including the Scranton Apollos, Scranton Miners and Scranton Zappers. Syracuse University men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim played for the Miners before turning to coaching. In 2012, the town/city played host to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers of the Premier Basketball League. The Electric City Shock SC semi-professional soccer team was established in 2013 as part of the National Premier Soccer League. The team is on the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid and plays at the University of Scranton's Fitzpatrick Field. Electric City Shock SC NPSL Soccer University of Scranton 2013 N/A 0 0 Excursion trains give visitors tours through Scranton and portions of the Pocono Mountains.
Many of Scranton's attractions jubilate its tradition as an industrialized center in iron and coal manufacturing and its ethnic range.
The Scranton Iron Furnaces are remnants of the city's beginning industry and of the Scranton family's Lackawanna Steel Company. The Steamtown National Historic Site seeks to preserve the history of barns s in the Northeast. The Electric City Trolley Museum preserves and operates pieces of Pennsylvania streetcar history. The Lackawanna Coal Mine tour at Mc - Dade Park, conducted inside a former mine, describes the history of quarrying and barns s in the Scranton area. The former DL&W Passenger Station is now the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel. Museums in Scranton include the Everhart Museum in Nay Aug Park, which homes a compilation of natural history, science and art exhibits; and the Houdini Museum, which features films, exhibits, and a stage show in a unique, century-old building.
Terence Powderly's home, still a private dwelling, is one of the city's many historic buildings and, with Steamtown, the city's other National Historic Landmark.
Catlin House in Scranton's Hill Section, focuses on the history of Lackawanna County.
Since the 1970s, Scranton has hosted La Festa Italiana, a three-day Italian festival that takes place on Labor Day weekend on the courthouse square.
Scranton's large Irish populace is represented in the annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade, first held in 1862.
Patrick's Day Parade Association of Lackawanna County, it is the nation's fourth-largest in attendance and second-largest in per capita attendance. Held on the Saturday before Saint Patrick's Day, the parade includes more than 8,000 citizens , including floats, bagpipe players, high school bands and Irish groups.
The 26.2-mile (42.2 km) Steamtown Marathon has been held each October since 1996 and finishes in downtown Scranton.
Nay Aug park is the biggest of a several parks in Scranton and was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also laid out Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.
The town/city is the home to various creative organizations, including the Scranton Fringe Festival (a performing arts festival held in the downtown section of the town/city in fall).
Scranton's major concert venue is the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain, a partially veiled amphitheater that seats 17,500.
A banner promoting Dunder Mifflin, the fictional paper business on NBC's The Office, hangs in downtown Scranton.
The town/city is the subject of George Inness's 1855 painting, The Lackawanna Valley, which hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The town/city is the setting for the fictional paper business Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch on NBC's The Office.
The town/city is imagined as a member of the class of interstellar Okies in James Blish's 1962 novel, A Life for the Stars, in which 2273 AD Scranton, equipped with a space drive, flies away and leaves an impoverished Earth behind.
The chief highways that serve Scranton are Interstate 81, which runs north to Binghamton, New York and Ontario and south to Harrisburg and Tennessee; Interstate 84, which runs east to Milford and New England; Interstate 380, which runs southeast to Mount Pocono and Interstate 80 east to New York City and west to San Francisco; Interstate 476/Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, which runs south to Allentown and Philadelphia; U.S.
Scranton's provider of enhance transit is the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS).
The other bussing business is the Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA), which mainly runs through The Minooka section (closest to Luzerne County) and Downtown Scranton by the steamtown mall.
Martz Trailways and Greyhound Lines furnish coach bus transit from its downtown station to New York City, Philadelphia and other points in the northeast.
Private operators such as Posten Taxi and Mc - Carthy Flowered Cabs service the Scranton area.
The Canadian Pacific Railway (Delaware and Hudson division) runs freight trains on the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western (DL&W) line between Scranton and Binghamton, with incessant through trains often jointly directed with Norfolk Southern Railway.
The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, as designated operator of county-owned rail lines, oversees the former Delaware and Hudson line from Scranton north to Carbondale, the former DL&W line east to the Delaware Water Gap and the former Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad third-rail interurban streetcar line south to Montage Mountain, Moosic.
These lines host the cyclic passenger trains of both the Steamtown National Historic Site and the Electric City Trolley Museum and are under the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority.
The PNRRA was created by Lackawanna County and Monroe County to oversee the use of common rail freight lines in Northeastern Pennsylvania, including one formerly owned by Conrail running from Scranton, through the Pocono Mountains towards New Jersey and the New York City market.
As of 2011, regular passenger train service to Scranton is slated to be restored under a plan to extend New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) service from Hoboken via the Lackawanna Cut-Off. The trains would pass the Lackawanna Station building and pull in at a new Scranton station on Lackawanna Avenue along the northernmost track east of Bridge 60 (the barns bridge over the Lackawanna River) and the Cliff Street underpass. The city's enhance schools are directed by the Scranton School District (SSD), which serves almost 10,000 students. The town/city has two enhance high schools for grades 9 12: Scranton High School just northwest of the downtown and West Scranton High School positioned on the West Side of the city.
The precinct also has three enhance middle schools for grades 6 8: Northeast Intermediate, South Scranton Intermediate, and West Scranton Intermediate.
Scranton has two private high schools: Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school, and Yeshiva Bais Moshe, an Ultra Orthodox school.
Holy Cross High School in Dunmore is a Catholic high school directed by the Diocese of Scranton that serves students in Scranton and the encircling area.
Protestant schools that serve the Scranton region include Abington Christian Academy, Canaan Christian Academy, The Geneva School, Summit Academy, and Triboro Christian Academy.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education provides supervision for the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children. Penn Foster High School, a distance education high school, is headquartered in Scranton. Scranton, West Scranton, Scranton Prep and Holy Cross all compete athletically in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna League which is a part of District 2 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.
The town/city hosts five universities and universities: The University of Scranton, The Commonwealth Medical College, Johnson College, Lackawanna College, Marywood University; and one technical school, Fortis Institute.
The Pennsylvania State University operates a Commonwealth Campus north of the city, in the borough of Dunmore, where ITT Tech is also located. Penn Foster Career School, a distance education vocational school, is headquartered in Scranton. The Lackawanna County Library System administers the libraries in Scranton, including the Albright Memorial Library and the Lackawanna County Children's Library and the Nancy Kay Holmes Library.
Mary Scranton former First Lady of Pennsylvania (1963 1967) William Scranton 38th Governor of Pennsylvania and former U.S.
William Scranton III Republican Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987 Joel Wachs (born 1939) Los Angeles, California, City Council member for thirty years (1970 2001), president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City Jim O'Neill Major League Baseball player, born in Minooka, Pennsylvania, now part of Scranton Mc - Andrew - Psychologist/Author (Lived in Scranton 1953-1959; parents from Scranton) John Mitchell global labor organizer, beginning member, later president, of the United Mine Workers of America union, buried in Scranton's Cathedral Cemetery.
John Joseph O'Connor 11th bishop (8th archbishop) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, 7th Bishop of Scranton Scranton has the following official sister cities, Official records for Avoca/Wilkes-Barre Scranton kept at downtown Scranton from January 1901 to 17 April 1955 and at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport since 18 April 1955. "Scranton, Wilkes, Barre Metro Area".
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