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Carbondale, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA
"Carbondale, a city of Lackawannaco, Pa., situated on the Lackawanna River, near the north end of the Lackawanna Valley, 16 miles N.N.E. of Scranton, and 15 miles W. of Honesdale. It is on the Delaware & Hudson Rail road, and is the south terminus of the Jefferson Branch Railroad, which connects with the Erie Railroad at Susquehanna. It contains 8 churches, a national bank, 2 graded schools, a Catholic academy, a savings-bank, printing-offices which issue 2 weekly newspapers, 3 foundries, a brewery, and 2 planing-mills. Here are beds of coal (anthracite) about 20 feet thick. These mines are owned by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, who send large quantities of coal to New York. It is drawn by steam engines on inclined planes over Moosic Mountain, which is about 850 feet higher than the valley. Much coal is also transported to Binghamton by the Jefferson Branch Rail road. Pop. in 1880, 7714; in 1890, 10,833."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
"Carbondale, a city of Lackawannaco, Pa., situated on the Lackawanna River, near the north end of the Lackawanna Valley, 16 miles N.N.E. of Scranton, and 15 miles W. of Honesdale. It is on the Delaware & Hudson Rail road, and is the south terminus of the Jefferson Branch Railroad, which connects with the Erie Railroad at Susquehanna. It contains 8 churches, a national bank, 2 graded schools, a Catholic academy, a savings-bank, printing-offices which issue 2 weekly newspapers, 3 foundries, a brewery, and 2 planing-mills. Here are beds of coal (anthracite) about 20 feet thick. These mines are owned by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, who send large quantities of coal to New York. It is drawn by steam engines on inclined planes over Moosic Mountain, which is about 850 feet higher than the valley. Much coal is also transported to Binghamton by the Jefferson Branch Rail road. Pop. in 1880, 7714; in 1890, 10,833."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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Photos and Postcards from Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
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North Church Street Showing Baptist Church
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Memorial Park, Carbondale, Pa.
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Sixth Avenue and City Hall, Carbondale, Pa.
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Emergency Hospital and Nurses' Home, Carbondale, Pa.
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Birds Eye View of Carbondale, Pa.
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
Emergency Hospital and Nurses Home
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
Delaware and Hudson Seventh Avenue Station
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
North Main Street
postmarked 1912
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
Elkview Country Club, Crystal Lake, Carbondale, Pa.
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
First National Bank
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
Powderly Colliery Hudson Coal Company
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
Main Street
postmarked 1938
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History of / News About Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA
Add History/News 1829: The Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale began operations on October 9, 1829. This was the first commercially successful railroad to operate in America.
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1831: The first deep underground anthracite coal mine in America was opened in Carbondale just West of the Seventh Avenue crossing on the Delaware & Hudson tracks.
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1846 - THE ACCIDENT AT CARBONDALE.We have some further details relative to the accident in the coal mines at Carbondale, of which we...Read MORE...
1851: Carbondale was incorporated as a city in Luzerne County on March 15, 1851, making it the oldest city (the "Pioneer" city) in what later became Lackawanna County, and the fourth oldest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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1872 - FATAL MINING DISASTER. THE LACKAWANNA BREAKER BLOWN DOWN AND BURNED -- FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND ANOTHER NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE. From Our Own Correspondent.
Scranton, Tuesday, April 2, 1872.
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1890 - FATAL CRASH AT A SWITCHThree Men Killed and Several Others Injured in a Wreck.
A frightful wreck occurred on the New...Read MORE...
1916
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1942 - FloodIn Tioga County, to the north, swiftly-moving waters inundated cellars and homes in...Read MORE...
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