History of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA

Journey back in time to Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA

• 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 gave a short account on Wednesday. The Wayne Co....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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• 1854 - Carbondale
  Carbondale, a city of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, is situated at the head of Lackawanna valley, and near the source of the Lackawanna river, 30...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1872 - FATAL MINING DISASTER. THE LACKAWANNA BREAKER BLOWN DOWN AND BURNED -- FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND ANOTHER NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE.
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  Scranton, Tuesday, April 2, 1872.
  
  To prevent an accident in or about a coal mine is almost an impossibility....Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1890 - FATAL CRASH AT A SWITCH
  Three Men Killed and Several Others Injured in a Wreck.
  
  A frightful wreck occurred on the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, at seven o'clock ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  North Church Street Showing Baptist Church
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• 1895 - Carbondale
  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,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Sixth Avenue and City Hall, Carbondale, Pa.
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  North Main Street and Hotel Harrison
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  Memorial Park, Carbondale, Pa.
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  North Main Street, from Salem Avenue
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  St. Rose Church
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  North Main Street and Harrison Hotel, 1908
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  Trinity Episcopal Church, 1909
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  Birds Eye View of Carbondale, Pa.
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  Emergency Hospital and Nurses Home
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  Delaware and Hudson Seventh Avenue Station
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  First M.E. Church, 1910
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  Emergency Hospital and Nurses' Home, Carbondale, Pa.
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  North Main Street
  postmarked 1912
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• 1916
  Carbondale, a city of Lackawanna co., Pa., situated on the Lackawanna River, near the north end of the Lackawanna Valley, and on the Delaware and...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Elkview Country Club, Crystal Lake, Carbondale, Pa.
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  First National Bank
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  Powderly Colliery Hudson Coal Company
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  Presbyterian Church and Methodist Church
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  Main Street
  postmarked 1938
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  Catholic Youth Center
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•  1942 - Flood
  In Tioga County, to the north, swiftly-moving waters inundated cellars and homes in Wellsboro.
  
  Weissport, Carbon County, reported 10 feet of water ...Read MORE...