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Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
The Old Forge School District is a diminutive, suburban, public school district serving the municipality of Old Forge, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Scranton in Lackawanna County. The district is one of the 500 public school districts of Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 3 square miles (7.8 km 2 ). According to 2000 federal census data, it ...
Roaring Brook [16][17] The Lackawanna River is a 42-mile-long (68 km) [18] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It flows through a region of the northern Pocono Mountains that was once a center of anthracite coal mining in the United States. It starts in north Wayne County, Pennsylvania and ends in east Luzerne ...
Steamtown National Historic Site
[14] [15] Scranton quit the company and formed the Scranton Steel Co. with his brother, Walter Scranton, in 1881. [2] [25] Within 10 years, the Scranton Steel Co. had become so successful that the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Co. entered into negotiations to merge with the firm. The two companies merged on January 9, 1891, forming the Lackawanna ...
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Map of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad, showing counties and places mentioned in the article. The Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad (LBR) was an 80-mile (130 km) long 19th century railroad that ran between Scranton and Northumberland in Pennsylvania in the United States. Incorporated in 1852, the railroad began operation in 1856 and was ...