Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA (Lackawanna)
1906

Scranton, a city, capital of Lackawanna co., Pa., is pleasantly situated on rising ground on the Lackawanna River, at the junction of the Roaring Brook, 160 miles N. of Philadelphia, on the Lackawanna, the Central R. of New Jersey, and other railroads. It contains a number of notable public edifices, such as the government building, city- hall, court-house, the Albright Memorial Library (with about 50,000 volumes), opera-house, board of trade building, etc. The town possesses a Historical Society, a Society of Natural Science, and a school for the deaf and dumb. Scranton is the centre of the great anthracite region, and its prosperity is mainly derived from operations in coal and manufactures of iron, machinery, etc. It has large rolling- mills, steel-works, steel-rail mills, furnaces, manufactories of locomotives, steam-boilers, edge-tools, nuts and bolts, carriages, leather, mining-machinery, silk fabrics, lace curtains, sash, blinds, etc. It is an important distributing point for general supplies to the mining region. Scranton was founded in 1840 and is the fourth city of the state in population. Pop. in 1880, 45,850; in 1890, 75,215; in 1900, 102,026.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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