Scranton is the sixth largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading. This is the county area of ​​Lackawanna County in Wymont Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania and has a federal courthouse. With a population of 77,291, it is the largest city in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of around 570,000.
Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley, and the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in adjacent quilt work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Carbondale. Scranton was founded on February 14, 1856, as a borough in Luzerne County and as a city on April 23, 1866. The city became a major industrial city, a mining and railway center, attracting thousands of new immigrants. It was the location of Scranton General Strike in 1877.
People in northern Luzerne County began searching for new territory in 1839 but the Wilkes-Barre region refused to lose its assets. Lackawanna County did not get an independent status until 1878. Under the law allowing the issue to be elected by the proposed population of the region, voters favored the new area with a proportion of 6-1, with the residents of Scranton providing great support. The city was designated as a county area when Lackawanna County was founded in 1878, and the district court was authorized for it in 1879.
The city "took the first step toward gaining its reputation as an Electrical City" when an electric light was introduced in 1880 at Dickson Locomotive Works. Six years later, the country's first tram powered exclusively by electricity began to operate in the city. Reverend David Spencer, a local Baptist priest, later proclaimed Scranton as "Electric City".
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Pra-industri (1776-1845)
Scranton of the present and the surrounding area has long been inhabited by the original tribe of Lenape, from whose language "Lackawanna" (or lac-a-wa-na, meaning "stream of the fork"), is derived. In 1778, Isaac Tripp, the first known European-American settler, built his home here; it still stands in North Scranton, formerly a separate city known as Providence. More settlers from Connecticut came to the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries after the American Revolutionary War, because their country claimed the territory as part of their colonial charter.
They gradually set up factories and other small businesses in a village known as Slocum Hollow. The people in the village have been carrying the nature and accent of their New England settlers, which is somewhat different from most of Pennsylvania. Some local settlers from Connecticut participated in what is known as the Pennamite War, where settlers compete to control the territory that has been included in the colonial kingdom's land grant to both states. (Claims between Connecticut and Pennsylvania were resolved through negotiations with the federal government after independence.)
Arrival of industry (1846-1899)
Although anthracite coal is being mined in Carbondale to the north and Wilkes-Barre in the south, the industry that accelerated the city's early rapid growth was iron and steel. In the 1840s, Selden T. and George W. Scranton's brothers, who had worked at Oxford Furnace in Belvidere, New Jersey, established what would become Lackawanna Iron & Coal, later developed as Lackawanna Steel Company. It initially started producing iron spikes, but the business failed because of low quality iron. The construction of the Erie Railroad in New York State was delayed due to having to get rail iron as imports from the UK. The Scrantons Company decided to shift focus to producing T-rails for Erie; the company soon became a major producer of railways for rapidly growing railways.
In 1851, Scrantons built Lackawanna and Western Railroad (L & W) to the north, with Irish immigrants recently supplying most of the workforce, to meet the Erie Railroad in Great Bend, Pennsylvania. Thus they can transport the rails produced from the Lackawanna Valley to New York and the Midwest. They also invest in coal mining operations in the city to drive their steel operations, and market them to businesses. In 1856, they expanded the railway eastward as Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DL & W), to enter the metropolitan market of New York City. This railroad, with its center in Scranton, will be Scranton's biggest company for nearly a hundred years.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company built a gravity train in the 1850s through the city for the purpose of transporting coal. The gravity train was replaced by a steam train built in 1886 by Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad (later absorbed by the Erie Railroad). The Delaware and Hudson (D & amp; H) Canal Company, which has its own gravity train from Carbondale to Honesdale, built a steam railway that entered Scranton in 1863.
During this brief period of time, the city rapidly changed from a small, agrarian village with New England roots to a multicultural-based city. From 1860 to 1900, the city's population increased more than tenfold. Most of the new immigrants, such as Ireland, Italy, and Southern Germany and Poland, are Catholic, in contrast to early-majority settlers-Protestant colonial descendants. The national, ethnic, religious and class distinctions are wrapped up in political affiliation, with many new immigrants joining the Democratic Party (and, for a time in the late 1870s, the Labor-Greenback Party.)
In 1856, the Borough of Scranton was officially established. It was entered as a city of 35,000 in 1866 in Luzerne County, when boroughs surrounding Hyde Park (now part of the West Side town) and Providence (now part of North Scranton) are joined by Scranton. Twelve years later in 1878, the state passed a law enabling the creation of a new district in which the county population surpassed 150,000, as did Luzerne. The law seems to allow the formation of Lackawanna County, and there is considerable political agitation around the authorization process. Scranton was appointed by the state legislature as a newly formed county county, which was also established as a separate judicial district, with state judges moving out of Luzerne County after a trial was organized in October 1878. This was the last region in the country to be governed.
The creation of the new county, which allowed both more local control and political patronage, followed the Scranton General Strike of 1877, part of a labor act that had swept the country and became known as the Great Railroad Strike, beginning in walkout by rail workers after wage cuts in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The national economy has been lagging since Panic of 1873, and workers in many industries struggled with low wages and intermittent work. In Scranton, miners follow train people from their work, as others do. A protest of 5,000 strikes ended in violence, with a total of four people killed, and 20 to 50 wounded, including the mayor. He had formed a militia, but sought help from the governor and state militia. Governor John Hartranft eventually brought in federal troops to quell the strike. Workers get no wages, but start to more deliberately set into unions that can use more power.
The first successful and nationally operated tramway system (trolley) was established in the city in 1886, inspiring the nickname "Electric City". In 1896, the city's tram companies were consolidated into the Scranton Railway Company, which ran a trolley up to 1954. In 1890, three other railway lines had built a pathway to tap into rich coal supplies in and around the city, including Erie Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey and finally New York, Ontario and Western Railway (NYO & W).
As the extensive railway network is spread over the ground, the larger railway network serves the rapidly growing underground vein system. Miners, who in the early years were usually Welsh and Irish, were hired as cheaply as possible by coal barons. Workers bear low wages, long hours and unsafe working conditions. Children eight or nine years old work 14 hours a day separating slate from coal in the breaker. Often, workers are forced to use housing provided by companies and buy food and other items from coal-owned stores. With hundreds of thousands of immigrants arriving in industrial cities, mine owners do not have to look for workers and workers struggle to maintain their position. Miners then came from Italy and Eastern Europe, who fled because of poverty and lack of work.
Business flourished in the late 19th century. Minimized coal tonnage increases almost every year, as does the steel produced by Lackawanna Steel Company. At one point the company owns the largest steel mill in the United States, and it is still the second largest producer at the turn of the 20th century. In 1900, the city had a population of over 100,000.
In the late 1890s, Scranton was home to a series of early international League baseball teams.
Work history
Given its industry base, Scranton has an important labor history; various coal unions struggled throughout the era of coal mining to improve working conditions, raise wages, and ensure fair treatment for workers. Panicking in 1873 and other economic hardship led to a national recession and a loss of business. As the economy contracts, railway companies reduce the wages of workers in most classes (while sometimes asking for a raise for their top management). The great strike of railroad workers in August 1877, part of the Great Railroad Strike, attracted workers from the steel and mining industries as well, and grew as Scranton General Strike. Four rioters were killed during the riots during the strike, after the mayor deployed the militia. With violence suppressed by militia and federal forces, the workers eventually returned to their jobs, unable to obtain any economic aid. William Walker Scranton, from a distinguished family, was then the general manager of Lackawanna Iron and Coal. He then founded Scranton Steel Company.
The labor and industrial growth issues in Scranton contributed to Lackawanna County established by state legislatures in 1878, with territories taken from Luzerne County. Scranton was appointed as the county seat. This strengthens its local government.
Unions failed to earn higher wages that year, but in 1878 they elected labor leader Terence V. Bubar of the Labor Knights as mayor of Scranton. After that, he became the national leader of the KoL, a Catholic-dominated organization that had a membership of the 700,000 peak around 1880. While the Catholic Church had banned membership in secret organizations since the mid-18th century, in the late 1880s with the influence of Archbishop James Gibbons of Baltimore, Maryland, supported the Labor Knights as workers' representatives and union organizers.
The 1902 Coal landmark strike of 1902, called by anthracite miners across the region and led by United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. The strike was resolved by a compromise mediated by President Theodore Roosevelt. A statue of John Mitchell was installed in his honor at the courthouse of the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton, "where the Coal strike of 1902 in which President Roosevelt participated.Because of the importance of negotiations, statues and courthouses, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. John Mitchell is buried at Cathedral Cemetery in Scranton. "
Growth, prosperity and consequences (1900-1945)
With the US Census of 1900, Scranton's population of 102,026, making it the third largest city in Pennsylvania and the 38th largest US city. At the turn of the 20th century, wealthy businessmen and industrialists built impressive Victorian houses in the hills and Green Ridge of the city. Most of them come from colonists and Republican. Industrial workers, who tend to be late immigrants from Ireland and southern and eastern Europe, are mostly Catholic. With the flood of immigrants in the market, they suffer from poor working conditions and wages.
In 1902, the decreasing supply of local iron ore, labor issues, and aging plants weighed on the city where the industry was founded. The Lackawanna Steel Company and many of its workers were moved to Lackawanna, New York, developed on Lake Erie just south of Buffalo. With a harbor in the lake, the company can receive iron ore sent from the Mesabi Ranks in Minnesota, which has just been mined.
Scranton stepped forward as the capital of the anthracite coal industry. Withdrawing thousands of workers needed to mine coal, the city is developing a new environment dominated by Italian and Eastern European immigrants, carrying their food, culture and religion. Many immigrants join the Democratic Party. Their national churches and neighborhoods are part of the city's history. Several Catholic and Orthodox churches were established and built during this period. A large Jewish community was also established, with most of its members coming from the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe. Working conditions for miners are enhanced by the efforts of labor leaders such as John Mitchell, who leads the United Mine Workers.
Underground mining undermines the entire environment, however, damaging homes, schools, and businesses when the land collapses. In 1913 the state passed the Davis Act to establish a Bureau of Surface Support in Scranton. Due to difficulties in dealing with coal companies, residents organized the Scranton Surface Protection Association, hired by the General Courts on November 24, 1913 "to protect the lives and property of Scranton City residents and the city's streets from injury, loss and damage caused by mining and mine caves. "
In 1915 and 1917, the city and the Commonwealth sought orders to prevent coal companies tear down city streets but lost their cases. North Main Avenue and Boulevard Avenue, "are both entitled to surface support, giving up as a result" of court decisions that are contrary to civilian authorities and allow coal companies to continue their operations.
"The case of 'Penman v. Jones' comes out differently Lackawanna Iron & Coal Co. has leased the coal fields to Lackawanna Iron & Steel Co., an allied company, which distributes rent to Scranton Coal Co" Area Scranton center, Hill Section, South Side, Pine Brook, Green Ridge and Hyde Park are influenced by their mining activities. Mr. Penman is the owner of a private property in this case. Coal operators are defeated in this case. "
The public transportation system began to expand beyond the railway line spearheaded by predecessors of the Scranton Railways system. Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, commonly called the Laurel Lane, was built as an inter-city passenger and freight transport to Wilkes-Barre. Scranton's offices, offices, power plants and maintenance facilities were built on a former Lackawanna Steel Company, and operations began in 1903. Beginning in 1907, Scrantonians were also able to board a trolley car to the northern outskirts of Clarks Summit and Dalton. They can travel to Lake Winola and Montrose using the North Electric Railway. After the 1920s, no new trolley lines were built, but bus operations were initiated and expanded to meet service needs. In 1934, Scranton Railways was reinserted as Scranton Transit Company, reflecting a shift in the mode of transportation.
Beginning in the early 1920s, the Scranton Button Company (founded in 1885 and the main maker of the shell key) became one of the main record makers of the record. They pressed records for Emerson (which they bought in 1924), as well as Regal, Cameo, Romeo, Banner, Domino, Conqueror. In July 1929, the company merged with Regal, Cameo, Banner, and Pathe's branch in the US (Pathe and Perfect maker) to become an American Record Company. In 1938, the Scranton company also pressed records for Brunswick, Melotone, and Vocalion. In 1946, the company was acquired by Capitol Records, which continued to produce records until the end of the vinyl era.
By the mid-1930s, the city's population had swelled beyond 140,000 due to growth in the mining and silk textile industries. World War II created a huge demand for energy, which led to the highest production of mining in the region since World War I.
- Post World War II (1946-1984) Post World War II (1946 -1984)
After World War II, coal lost support for oil and natural gas as heating fuel, mainly because the latter type was easier to use. While several US cities prospered in the postwar boom, Scranton's wealth and population (and the rest of the Lackawanna and Luzerne regions) began to wane. Coal production and rail traffic declined rapidly throughout the 1950s, causing job loss.
The Knox Mine Disaster January 1959 nearly ended the mining industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The waters of the Susquehanna River are flooded with mines. The DL & amp; W Railroad, almost bankrupt by a drop in coal traffic and the impact of Hurricane Diane, joined in the 1960s with the Erie Railroad. Demand for public transportation also declined as new highways were built by federal subsidies and people bought cars. In 1952, Laurel Line stopped the passenger service. The Scranton Transit Company, whose trolleys had given their nickname to the city, transferred all operations to the bus as the holiday season of 1954 approached; in 1968, he stopped all operations. The city was left without a public transport system until the Lackawanna County government formed COLTS, which began operating in 1972 with a 1940s GM bus from New Jersey.
Scranton has been at the center of operations until Erie Lackawanna's merger, after which it no longer serves in this capacity. This is a severe blow to the local labor market. The NYO & amp; The W Railroad, which relies heavily on the Scranton branch for freight traffic, was abandoned in 1957. Mine drops were a pervasive problem in the city because the support of the pillars in the abandoned mine began to fail; caves are sometimes consumed throughout the house block. The area was abandoned by abandoned coal mining structures, mine strips, and massive dump culm, some of which burned and burned for years until they were extinguished through government efforts. In 1970, the Secretary of Mines for Pennsylvania stated that so many underground cavities left by mining under Scranton would be "more economical" to leave the city than to keep them safe. In 1973, the last mining operation in Lackawanna County (which is now at McDade Park, and the other on the Scranton/Dickson City track) is closed. During the 1960s and 1970s, other silk and textile industries shrank when work was moved to the South or abroad.
In 1962, businessman Alex Grass opened his first "Thrif D Discount Center" drugstore at Lackawanna Avenue in downtown Scranton. The 17-by-75-foot store (5 times 23 m), an immediate success, is the ancestor of the national Rite A drug store chain.
During the 1970s and 1980s, many shops downtown and the theater became vacant. The suburban construction follows the highway and the suburban shopping center becomes a prime spot for shopping and entertainment.
Stabilization and recovery (1985 -)
Since the mid-1980s, the city has emphasized revitalization. Local governments and most societies have generally adopted a new interest in urban buildings and history. Some historic properties have been renovated and marketed as tourist attractions. The Steamtown National Historic Site captures an ever-leading position in the railroad industry. Former DL & amp; W is restored as Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel. The Electric City Trolley Museum is built next to the DL & amp; W yard inhabited by NHS Steamtown.
Since the mid-1980s, Scranton Cultural Center has operated an architecturally important Masonic Temple and the Scottish Rite Cathedral, designed by Raymond Hood, as a regional performing arts center. The Houdini Museum opened in Scranton in 1990 by the nation's renowned wizard Dorothy Dietrich.
In 2003, Hilton Hotel & amp; Resorts opened Scranton Hilton & amp; Conference Center on the corner of Adams Avenue & amp; Lackawanna Avenue in the heart of downtown Scranton. Due to the anger for a paranormal themed television show, a historic Scranton Ghost Walk center downtown has been expanded to operate 365 days a year. Other attractions include the Montage Mountain ski resort (formerly SnÃÆ'¶ Mountain), Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, an AHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins; Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (formerly Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees and, before that, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons), AAA affiliates of the New York Yankees; and their Field PNC, and Toyota Pavilion at the Montage Mountain concert venue.
According to The Guardian, the city was almost bankrupt in July 2012, with salaries of all city officials, including the mayor and chief of firefighters, cut to $ 7.25/hour. Financial consultant Gary Lewis, who lives in Scranton, cited estimates that "on July 5, the city has only $ 5,000 cash in hand."
Since the revitalization began, many coffee shops, restaurants and bars have opened in the city center, creating a vibrant nightlife. Low cost of living, pedestrian-friendly city center, and the construction of loft-style apartments in older buildings and significant architecture have attracted young professionals and artists. Many people who grew up in Scranton, moved to big cities after high school and college, and decided to return to the area to take advantage of the facilities.
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Geography
Scranton is located on 41Ã, Â ° 24? 38? N 75Ã, Â ° 40? 3? W (41.410629, -75.667411). The total area is 25.4 square miles (66 km 2 ) including 25.2 square miles (65 km 2 ) ground and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km < soup> 2 ) water, according to the US Census Bureau. Scranton is dried by the Lackawanna River.
The city center is about 750 feet (229 m) above sea level, although the hilly part of the city ranges from about 650 to 1,400 feet (200 to 430 m). The city is flanked by mountains east and west ranging from 1,900 to 2,100 feet (580 to 640 m).
Climate
Scranton has a humid continental climate (KÃÆ'¶ppen Dfa/Dfb ), with four distinct seasons. Summer has an occasional heat wave carrying temperatures above 90 Â ° F (32 Â ° C), while winter can have cold winds that carry temperatures below 0 Â ° F (-18 Â ° C). The monthly average monthly temperature in January, the coldest month, was 25.8 Â ° F (-3.4 Â ° C), while the same number in July, the warmest month was 71.4 Â ° F (21, 9 Â ° C)). Extremes in temperatures ranged from 103.2 ° F (40 ° C) on July 9, 1936 to -21 ° F (-29 ° C) on January 21, 1994; there is an average of only 9.2 days of the highest 90 °, Â ° F (32Ã, Â ° C), 37 days where height fails to rise above freezing, and 3 days from sub-0 °, Â ° F (-18Ã , Â ° C) lowest. Precipitation is generally slightly less during the late spring and summer, whereas winter is generally the driest. On average, each month sees 10 to 13 deposition days, and the total annual average is 38.23 inches (971 mm). Snow rains vary, with some winters carrying light snow and others carrying many blizzards. For the period 1981-2010, mean annual rainfall of 42 inches (107 cm), with January and February being the majority of the seasonal total; On average, the first and last dates of measured snowfall (> = 0.1 inches or 0.25 cm) are November 15 and April 4, with snow in October a rare occurrence.
Surround Areas
Scranton has seven identifiable parts: Minooka, West Side, South Side, Hill Section (a.k.a. East Scranton), North Scranton, East Mountain, and Downtown. Like most cities and neighborhoods, boundaries can be ambiguous and not always defined uniformly.
West Scranton (West Side) (shown in orange) consists of a smaller cluster of neighborhoods including Hyde Park, West Mountain (all north of Keyser Ave.), Keyser Valley, Bellevue, and Tripp Park. North Scranton (shown in blue) contains the Providence neighborhood.
The South Side has a Birth Part, St. Johns, Flats, Mount East (all east of Interstate 81), and Minooka, which is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of town. It is bordered by two commercial streets, Cedar Avenue and Moosic Street. East Mountain Border on Scranton Lake, a popular location for jogging or for walking in nature.
The Hill Section is the main part of the residential area adjacent to the eastern side of downtown Scranton, which comprises the area around Jefferson Avenue and Nay Aug Park. It is home to three Scranton universities, including Scranton University, Lackawanna College, and Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, as well as Albright Memorial Library. In addition, Nay Aug Park is in the Bukit section, which contains Everhart Museum, several natural trails, and a summer water park.
The Upper Green Ridge area is the richest in the neighborhood, extending to the neighboring Dunmore region. It is here and in some parts of Bukit that coal barons and trains build their houses, many of which are still standing.
Downtown Scranton is the commercial center of Scranton. Notable sights in the city center include the Steamtown National Historic Site, the Electric Trolley Museum, the Lackawanna County Courthouse Square, the historic Iron Stove, the Radisson Station Hotel (converted from a large train station), the Masonic Cultural Center and Temple, and the convention center. Lackawanna River Heritage Trail crosses the Lackawanna River between the city center and West Scranton, providing pedestrian and bike access to the river.
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Demographics
At the 2010 census, there were 76,089 people, 30,069 households, and 18,124 families living in the city. Population density is 3.006/miÃ,² (1,161/km²). There are 33,853 housing units with an average density of 1,342/miÃ, ² (518/km²). City racial makeup is 84.11% White, 5.45% African American, 0.23% Native American, 2.98% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Island, 4.69% of other races, and 2.49% % of two or more races. Hispanic or Latino from any race reaches 9.90% of the population.
There were 30,069 households where 24.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.8% were married couples living together, 13.8% had non-husbands female households, and 42.1% were not family. The city has 36.7% single-occupancy households and 18.1% of individuals 65 years old. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 3.01.
The population age is distributed by 20.8% below 18, 12.3% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 20.1% to a minimum of 65. Age- the average is 39 years. For every 100 women, there are 87.0 men. For every 100 women at least 18 years old, there are 83.0 men.
The average income for households in the city is $ 28,805, and the average income for families is $ 41,642. Men have an average income of $ 30,829 compared to $ 21,858 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 16,174. Found below the poverty line is 15.0% of the population, 10.7% of families, 18.9% of those under the age of 18 and 12.0% of those 65 years old.
In the 2006 American Community Survey, the average family size was 2.95. Of the population aged 25 years and over, 83.3% of them have graduated from high school. 18.7% of them have a Bachelor's degree or higher. In the labor force (population 16 years and over), 57.6% of them work. Per capita income (in dollars adjusted for inflation 2006) is $ 17,187.
Public security
Fire Department
The Fire Bureau was established as a paid service in 1901. It is a full-time service consisting of about 130 firefighters. Its headquarters is on Mulberry Street in Central City. The fire department has eight fire stations, located on the south side of the city, downtown, parts of Pinebrook, West Side, North Scranton, Bull's Head, and in East Mountain. He has nine fire engines, including six engines, two trucks, and one rescue machine. Due to staff changes recently in early 2011, Engine Company # 9 was closed and, at times, some of the remaining companies were left unmanned due to lack of manpower.
Police
Scranton Police Patrol Division was broken into three shifts. Police headquarters are located on South Washington Avenue in downtown Scranton. The Special Unit includes Arson Investigations, Automatic Theft Task Force, Child Abuse Investigation, TKP Investigation, Criminal Investigation, Adolescent Unit, Special Investigation Unit, Special Operations Group (SWAT/SOG), Dog Unit, Community Development, and Highway Units. The Police Department recently opened two new satellite stations. The Highway Unit was moved to a new station on N. Keyser Ave & amp; Morgan Highway. The second one opens in the Valley View housing complex. There are plans for at least one more, and maybe two.
Culture
Media
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area is the 55th largest US television market. Local television stations include:
- WNEP-TV ABC affiliate
- WBRE-TV NBC affiliates
- WYOU-TV CBS affiliates
- WVIA-TV PBS Affiliates
- WOLF-TV FOX affiliates
- WQMY MyNetworkTV Affiliate
- WWW CW affiliates
- WQPX Ion Television affiliate
Local public access television and state access television (ECTV) programs are broadcast on Comcast cable channels 19 and 21.
Scranton hosts the Times-Shamrock Communications headquarters, which publishes the city's premier newspaper, The Times-Tribune, a Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper established in 1870. Times-Shamrock > also publishes Electric City , weekly entertainment tabloid, and The Citizens' Voice , a daily tabloid based in Wilkes-Barre. Times Leader is a daily newspaper that mainly includes the nearby Wilkes-Barre. The Times Leader also publishes Go Lackawanna , a Sunday newspaper serving Scranton and its surrounding cities, and Weekender is a Wilkes-Barre based entertainment tabloid with a distribution in Scranton.
The Aquinas is the weekly Scranton University student newspaper. The Scranton Post is a weekly public flower sheet that calls itself the first online newspaper in the city. There are other print publications with a narrow focus, including Union News, La Voz Latina and Melanian News.
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre radio market is ranked # 71 in the country by Arbitron.
Sports
Scranton professional sports date until 1887, when the Scranton Indian small league became the first professional baseball team in the city. Many more followed, including teams in the Pennsylvania State League, the Eastern League, the Atlantic League, the New York State League, the New York-Penn League, and the New York-Pennsylvania League. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the International League play their home game at PNC Field in Moosic, south of Scranton. The RailRider is the Defender of the Northern Division, the International League, and the Three-A National Champion
In football, Scranton Eagles, the semi-pro/minor league team, dominated their Imperial Football League, having won 11 championships. The former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers soccer racer, who played eight seasons at the Mohegan Sun Arena (formerly Wachovia Arena) in Wilkes-Barre Township has made a playoff in the last six years of his existence and competed for ArenaCup VIII in 2007 and X ArenaCup in 2009, their last year, but lost the second time. Another semi-pro/minor league team, North East Pennsylvania Miners of the North East Football Federation began playing in the area in 2007.
Scranton previously had a professional basketball team, including Scranton Apollos, Scranton Miners and Scranton Zappers. Syracuse University men's basketball coach, Jim Boeheim, played for Miners before turning to training. In 2012, the city hosts Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers from Premier Basketball League. The team is off after the season, and there is no professional team playing in the city. In 2018, Scranton Shamrocks joined the American Basketball Association (2000-present), again bringing professional basketball to the region.
The professional ice hockey arrived in 1999 when Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League began playing at the Mohegan Sun Arena (formerly Wachovia Arena) in Wilkes-Barre Township. The team won the conference championships in 2001, 2004, and 2008.
The semi-professional football team of Electric City Shock SC was founded in 2013 as part of the National Premier Soccer League. The team is at the fourth level of the American Football Pyramid and plays at Fitzpatrick Field Scranton University.
Watres Armory in Scranton hosted a World Heavyweight Championship match between Larry Holmes titler and challenger, European champion Lucien Rodrigues of France on March 27, 1983. Holmes retained his title through a 12 round round decision without losing a lap in any official scorecard.
Beginning in 2014, Scranton is also home to Skyliners Drum and Bugle Corps, a professional marching drum corps on the Drum Corps Associates circuit. They compete with other corps around the country, and play many parades, shows and community performances. The Skyliners have won many awards for their performances, including national titles and the open world.
Landmarks and attractions
Scranton's many attractions celebrate its heritage as an industrial hub in iron and coal production and its ethnic diversity. The Scranton Iron Furnaces are the remnants of the town-setting industry and the Scranton Lackawanna Steel Company family. The Steamtown National Historic Site seeks to preserve the history of the railway in the Northeast. The Electric City Trolley Museum maintains and operates pieces of Pennsylvania streetcar history. The Lackawanna Coal Mine tour at McDade Park, which is done inside a former mine, illustrates the mining history and railroad in the Scranton area. Long Term Passenger DL & amp; W is now the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel.
Museums in Scranton include Everhart Museum at Nay Aug Park, which houses a collection of natural history, science and art exhibitions; and the Houdini Museum, which features films, exhibitions and stage performances in a unique century-old building. Terence Powderly's home, still a private residence, is one of many historic buildings in the city and, with Steamtown, another National Historic Landmark town. In addition, The Lackawanna Historical Society, founded in 1886 and located at George H. Catlin House in Scranton's Hill Section, focuses on the history of Lackawanna County. Tripp House, built by the Tripp family in 1771, is the oldest building in the city.
The religious history of this city is seen in the Basilica of National Shrine of St. Ann, who attracts thousands of pilgrims to the annual novena, and St. Stanislaus, the seat of the Polish National Catholic Church in North America. The history of this denominational establishment is related to Polish immigration to Scranton in the late 19th century.
Since the 1970s, Scranton has hosted La Festa Italiana, a three-day Italian festival held on Labor Day weekend in the courthouse square. The festival originally took place around Columbus Day, but was moved because Scranton generally received cold weather in October.
Scranton's large population in Ireland is represented in the Saint Patrick's Day Parade annually, first held in 1862. Organized by the St. Petersburg Day Parade Association Patrick in Lackawanna County, the country is the fourth largest country present and the second largest in per capita presence. Held on Saturday before Saint Patrick's Day, the parade includes over 8,000 people, including buoys, bagpipes, high school bands and Irish groups. In 2008, an estimated attendance as high as 150,000 people.
For recreation, there is Montage Mountain Ski Resort, known as Sno Mountain for short periods, which rival the various Poconos resorts in popularity and offer a relatively complete level of difficulty. The 26.2 miles (42.2 km) Steamtown Marathon has been held every October since 1996 and ends in downtown Scranton. Nay Aug park is the largest of several parks in Scranton and designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also lays Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. The city is home to many artistic organizations, including the Scranton Fringe Festival (a performing arts festival held in downtown in the fall).
Scranton's main concert venue is the Toyota Pavilion on Montage Mountain, a partially enclosed amphitheater that can accommodate 17,500. His summer concerts include James Taylor, Dave Matthews Band, and many other musical acts.
Scranton Cultural Center at Masonic Temple is an impressive piece of architecture that houses multiple auditoriums and a large ballroom. It hosts Northeast Philharmonic, Broadway Theater and other tour shows.
In popular culture
The city became the subject of the George Inness paintings of 1855, the
Harry Chapin's song "30,000 Pounds of Banana" was about a real 1965 fatal accident in Scranton, where a driver carrying bananas lost control of his truck when the ship crashed on Moosic Street.
This city is the setting for a fictitious paper company, the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch at NBC's The Office . The Scranton Branch is the venue for most television episodes.
The city was envisioned as a member of the Okies interstellar class in the novel James Blish in 1962, A Life for the Stars, where Scranton 2273, equipped with a space drive, flies and leaves a poor man. Earth behind.
Transportation
The main highway serving Scranton is Interstate 81, which runs north to Binghamton, New York and Ontario and south to Wilkes-Barre, Harrisburg and Tennessee; Interstate 84, which flows east to Milford and New England States; Interstate 380, which runs southwest to Pocono Pines and Interstate 80 east to New York City and west to San Francisco; Interstate 476/Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, which runs south to Allentown and Philadelphia; Route 6 US, which leads east to Carbondale/Honesdale and parallel to I-84 to New England States and west to Erie; and Route 11 AS, which runs parallel with I-81.
Scranton public transport provider is the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS). The COLTS bus provides extensive in-town services and more limited services that extend in all directions to Carbondale, Daleville, Pittston, and Fleetville. Another bussing company is the Luzerne County Transport Authority (LCTA), which mainly runs through the Minooka section (closest to Luzerne County) and Downtown Scranton by The Mall in Steamtown.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport is located near Avoca. The airport is served by American Airlines, Delta, and United.
Martz Trailways and Greyhound Lines provide coach bus transportation from its central station to New York City, Philadelphia, and other places in the Northeast.
Private operators such as Posten Taxi and McCarthy Flowered Cabs serve the Scranton area. They are hired by phone through the shipping center and can not be praised on the road like in big cities.
Railway
Rail transportation, vital to the city's historical growth, remains important today.
The Norfolk Southern Railway runs freight trains in the former Delaware, Lackawanna & amp; Western Line (DL & W) between Scranton and Binghamton, after taking over operations from the Canadian Pacific Railway (Delaware and Hudson Railway division) in 2015. The Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad serves former DL & amp; W Keyser Valley in town.
The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, as the county's railroad operator, oversees the former Delaware and Hudson lines from Scranton north to Carbondale, former DL & amp; W to the east to Delaware Water Gap and the former Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad third-south interurban tram line to Mount Montage, Moosic. These lines host seasonal passenger trains from both the Steamtown National Historic Site and the Electrical City Cart Museum and are under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Pennsylvania Regional Rail Authority.
PNRRA was created by Lackawanna County and Monroe County to oversee the use of public railway lines in Northeastern Pennsylvania, including those previously owned by Conrail operating from Scranton, through the Pocono Mountains to New Jersey and the New York City market.
One of the main objectives is to rebuild the train passenger services to Hoboken, New Jersey and then with connections to New York. In 2011, a regular passenger train service to Scranton is scheduled to be restored with plans to extend New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) service from Hoboken via Lackawanna Cut-Off. The train will pass the Lackawanna Station building and stop at a new Scranton station on Lackawanna Avenue along the northernmost path east of Bridge 60 (the railway bridge over the Lackawanna River) and the Cliff Street underpass.
Education
Primary and secondary education
The city's public schools are operated by the Scranton School District (SSD), which serves nearly 10,000 students. The city has two public high schools for grades 9-12: Scranton High School in the northwest city center and West Scranton High School located on the West Side of the city. The district also has three public high schools for grades 6-8: Northeast Intermediate, Scranton Intermediate South, and West Scranton Intermediate. In addition, SSD manages 12 public elementary schools for K-5 classes.
Scranton has two private secondary schools: Scranton Preparatory School, private Jesuit school, and Yeshiva Bais Moshe, an Orthodox Ultra school. Holy Cross High School in Dunmore is a Catholic high school operated by Scranton diocese that serves students in Scranton and the surrounding area. The diocese also operates several private elementary schools in the city. Protestant schools serving the Scranton area include Abington Christian Academy, Canaan Christian Academy, The Geneva School, Summit Academy, and Triboro Christian Academy. The Pennsylvania Department of Education provides supervision for the Scranton School for Hearing and Hearing. Penn Foster High School, a distance education school, is based in Scranton.
Scranton, West Scranton, Scranton Prep and Holy Cross all compete athletically in the Lackawanna League of Pennsylvania which is part of District 2 of the Interscholastic Pennsylvania Athletic Association.
Colleges and universities
The city has five colleges and universities: Scranton University, Commonwealth Geisinger Medical School, Johnson University, Lackawanna University, Marywood University; and an engineering school, Fortis Institute. The Pennsylvania State University operates the Commonwealth Campus north of the city, in the small county of Dunmore. Penn Foster Career School, a distance education school, is based in Scranton.
Library
The Lackawanna County Library System runs a library in Scranton, including the Albright Memorial Library and Lackawanna County Children's Library and Nancy Kay Holmes Library. In 2008, the Scranton library served over 96,000 people and had a circulation of over 547,000.
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Twin Cities
Scranton has the following official sister city,
- Ballina, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland
- Guardia Lombardi, Italy
- Balakovo, Russia
- Trnava, Slovakia
- Perugia, Italy
- San Marino City, San Marino
- Caronia, Italy
See also
- Polish Cathedral Style
- Scranton Army Amunisi Plant
- Weston Field (Scranton)
- Office
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References
External links
- Scranton City
- Lackawanna Historical Society
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