Scranton was incorporated on February 14, 1856, as a borough in Luzerne County and as a city on April 23, 1866. It became a major industrial city, a center of mining and railroads, and attracted thousands of new immigrants. The city’s industrial production and population peaked in the 1930s and 1940s. The Knox Mine disaster of 1959 essentially ended coal mining in the region.
About Scranton, Pennsylvania in brief
Scranton was incorporated on February 14, 1856, as a borough in Luzerne County and as a city on April 23, 1866. It became a major industrial city, a center of mining and railroads, and attracted thousands of new immigrants. Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley and northeastern Pennsylvania. The city’s industrial production and population peaked in the 1930s and 1940s, fueled by demand for coal and textiles, especially during World War II. The Knox Mine disaster of 1959 essentially ended coal mining in the region. In 1945, city leaders formulated the Scrant on Plan to diversify the local economy beyond coal, but the city’s economy continued to decline. The population dropped from its peak of 143,000 in the 30 census to 76,000 in the 2010 census. The area was long inhabited by the native Lenape tribe, from whose language \”Lackawanna\”, is derived. In 1778, Isaac Tripp, the area’s first known white settler, built his home here. More settlers from Connecticut came to the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries after the American Revolutionary War, as their state claimed this area as part of their colonial charter. They gradually established mills and other small businesses in a village that became known as Slocum Hollow. People in the village during this time carried the traits and accent of their New England settlers, which were somewhat different from most of Pennsylvania.
In the 1840s, the brothers Tlden and Selden, who worked at Oxford Furnace in New Jersey, founded what became Lackawannas Iron & Steel Company. In 1851, the Western and Western Railroad built the Western & Western Railroad. The firm decided to switch its focus to producing T-rails for the Erie Railroad, which later became the Erie Railway. The company later went bankrupt and was bought out by a New York company in 1883. The Western &Western Railroad was founded in 1851 and later bought out the New York State and New Jersey Railroad in 1882. The Erie Railroad’s construction in New York was delayed by its failure to acquire iron rails as imports from England had to be imported from New York. The Westside, the Hill Section, Central City, Minooka, East Mountain, Providence, and Green Ridge, though these areas do not have legal status, are conventionally divided into nine districts. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is located in the city. It is the county seat and largest city of Lackawana County in Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley and hosts a federal court building for the United States District Court. With an estimated population in 2019 of 76,653, it is the largest city in northeastern Pennsylvania and the Scanton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of about 570,000. The city now has large health care and manufacturing sectors.
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