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The Susquehanna River and Wilkes-Barre Downtown Wilkes-Barre at night The Stegmaier Federal Building Roth Residence Hall McClintock Hall, built in 1841 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (18 km 2 ) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ), or 4.60%, is water.
The River Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.The district includes 215 contributing buildings near downtown in Wilkes-Barre on Franklin St., River St., W. River St., W. Jackson St., W. Union St., W. Market St., W. Northampton St., W. South St., and W. Ross, St., and Barnum Pl. [2] The buildings were built between 1860 ...
A 1907 postcard. Hotel Sterling was a hotel in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, at the intersection of River Street and Market Street.It was opened in 1898 by local businesspeople, who then owned a music hall located at the site, and was named after Emma E. Sterling, [1] whose late husband, Walter G. Sterling, a local banker and businessman, owned a share of the music hall.
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s ...
Wilkes-Barre: 6: Catlin Hall, Wilkes College: Catlin Hall, Wilkes College: March 16, 1972 : 92 South River Street: Wilkes-Barre: 7: Central Railroad of New Jersey Station: Central Railroad of New Jersey Station: May 12, 1975 : 31–35 South Baltimore Street
Nov. 10—WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Army Veteran Ronald Skamanich, volunteer curator of memorabilia at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center, said veterans come up to him all the time and say they have ...
The Luzerne County Historical Society is one of the oldest continually operating local historical societies in America. It was founded on February 11, 1858, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first successful burning of anthracite coal by Jesse Fell, and was originally named the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
In 1806, a large portion of the territory broke away from the township to form the borough of Wilkes-Barre. Today, the township of Wilkes-Barre occupies a 1-by-3-mile (1.6 by 4.8 km) strip of land adjacent to the southeast border of what is now the city of Wilkes-Barre. Coal mining was a prominent industry in and around Wilkes-Barre Township in ...