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Dallas was first settled in 1797. It was later incorporated as a borough on April 21, 1879, from land entirely within Dallas Township. [5] The township had been formed in 1817 [5] and was named for Alexander J. Dallas, who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father of George M. Dallas, the vice president of James Polk.
Dallas Township is a township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Back Mountain , a 118 square mile (306 km 2 ) region in northern Luzerne County. The population was 9,124 at the 2020 census.
The area now known as Dallas was first settled in 1797. It was incorporated as a borough on April 21, 1879, from a section of Dallas Township. [ 1 ] The township, formed in 1817, [ 1 ] and was named for Alexander J. Dallas , the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father of George M. Dallas the vice president of James Polk .
The Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company was chartered on May 6, 1852, and organized on January 10, 1853. The purpose of the line was to provide a rail link from Huntingdon to Bedford, and to provide a competitive alternate route to local coal producers to break the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's monopoly on coal that was being shipped from the Cumberland, Maryland, area.
The Caddo inhabited the Dallas area before it was settled by Europeans. All of Texas became part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain in the 16th century. The area was also claimed by the French, but in 1819 the Adams-Onís Treaty officially placed Dallas well within Spanish territory by making the Red River the northern boundary of New Spain.
The Pennsylvania American Water Company owns property along Huntsville Creek. [9] A reservoir known as the Huntsville Reservoir is situated in the watershed of Huntsville Creek. It has a capacity of 1.9 billion gallons and supplies water to 30,000 people in Dallas, Kingston Township, Swoyersville, West Wyoming, and Wyoming. [10]
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By 1960, PA 115 was moved onto a freeway (now PA 33) from Saylorsburg to PA 512 in Wind Gap. [28] In April 1961, the northern terminus of PA 115 was moved from Hughesville to US 309 (now PA 309 Business, PA 309 Bus.) in Wilkes-Barre Township, with the route replaced by PA 118 between Hughesville and Dallas. This change was made in order to ...