Its county seat is Honesdale.

Honesdale is a borough in and the county seat of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Honesdale is located in a rural area that provides many recreational opportunities including: boating, fishing, hiking, hunting, skiing, biking, skateboarding, and rafting.

Honesdale is home to the first commercial steam locomotive run on rails in the United States, the Stourbridge Lion.

On August 8, 1829, the Stourbridge Lion started in Honesdale, ran three miles to Seelyville, and returned ; Honesdale, therefore, is known as the birthplace of the American Railroad.

Honesdale is located at ( 41. 574214 ,-75. 255966 ).

The hospital serving Honesdale and the surrounding communities is Wayne Memorial Hospital.

* Honesdale High School is part of the Wayne Highlands School District.

* Schrute Farms, the Bed and Breakfast beet farm belonging to Dwight Schrute on NBC's popular sitcom The Office is listed as a Honesdale establishment on TripAdvisor. com.

* Honesdale is mentioned in the opening scene of the movie " The Ten " starring Paul Rudd of Wet Hot American Summer.

Although Honesdale is mentioned in the film, the film was not actually shot in Honesdale.

Samantha Caine ( Geena Davis ) is a mother and schoolteacher with a seemingly normal life in the small town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania.

Today, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, is named in honor of Philip Hone.

WBYO is simulcast on 88. 1 MHz WZXM in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 88. 1 MHz WZZD in Warwick, Pennsylvania, 88. 3 MHz WZXQ in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 88. 7 MHz WBYX in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 89. 1 MHz WBYH in Hawley, Pennsylvania, 90. 9 MHz WZZH in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 91. 9 MHz WYTL in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, and 91. 7 MHz WZXH in Hagerstown.

* 1829: the Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale began operations on October 9, 1829.

The Honesdale Residential Historic District and Delaware and Hudson Canal are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

* Honesdale, the County seat, hosts the annual Wayne County Fair, starting on the first Friday in August as it has for over a century.

* Honesdale was home to the Roman Catholic St. Vincent's Elementary School, located on Cliff Street.

* Richard C. Smith co-wrote the song " Winter Wonderland " in 1934 ; his house still stands on Church St., Honesdale.

* Although the movie Playing for Keeps was filmed mainly in nearby Bethany, Pennsylvania, scenes were filmed at the old Miracle Market on 6th Street in Honesdale.

Its first official run took place on August 8 of that year in Honesdale, PA.

From there the canal ran northwest on the New York side of the Delaware River, crossing into Pennsylvania on Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct at Lackawaxen and running on the north bank of the Lackawaxen River to Honesdale.

The ' Stourbridge Lion ' became the first steam locomotive to run on a commercial railway at Honesdale, Pennsylvania.

From there the canal ran northwest on the New York side of the Delaware River, crossing into Pennsylvania at Lackawaxen and running on the north bank of the Lackawaxen River to Honesdale.

He continued to play baseball during his years at Bucknell, pitching for minor league teams in Honesdale and Meridian, Pennsylvania.

The Health System consists of Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale and several other subsidiaries and / or affiliates.

* Honesdale EMS / Mobile 504, based in Honesdale and Paupack Township, provides advanced life support and basic life support services to most of Wayne County.

To get the coal to New York, a gravity railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale was proposed, along with a canal from Honesdale to the Hudson River at Kingston.

The Delaware and Hudson ( D & H ) Canal Company, which had its own gravity railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale, built a steam railroad that entered Scranton in 1863.

In 1829, the Delaware and Hudson Canal began operating between Honesdale, Pennsylvania and Kingston, New York.

Honesdale, Pennsylvania, was named for Philip Hone, former Mayor of New York and president of Honesdale's Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.

Honesdale, originally Dyberry Forks, was laid out in 1826, as the D & H Canal was also created, and incorporated in 1831.

D & H transported anthracite coal from mines near Carbondale to New York City via Honesdale and Kingston, New York.

Coal was moved by a unique gravity-railroad from the mines to Honesdale where it was transferred to barges and transported via a 108-mile canal to Kingston, NY, from where it was shipped by river barges down the Hudson River to New York City.

In 1900, 2, 864 people lived in Honesdale ; in 1911, 2, 945 people made it their home ; in 1940, 5, 687 lived there ; and in 2000, 4, 874 lived there.

The daily newspaper, The Wayne Independent, was established at Honesdale in 1878, and emphasizes local stories.

In addition to local news, events, and weather, it broadcasts the Honesdale Hornets High School football games every Friday night during football season.

In recent years the festival became so popular that there are now several such large summer festivals near the Connecticut-Rhode Island border: The Great Connecticut Cajun and Zydeco Music & Arts Festival, The Blast From The Bayou Cajun and Zydeco Festival, Rhythm & Roots Festival also in California the Cajun / Zydeco Festival ; Bay Area Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont, Calif. and The Simi Valley Cajun, Creole Music Festival.

* Rhythm & Roots Festival

Annual events include Kilkenny Arts Week, the Cat Laughs comedy festival and music at the Rhythm and Roots festival and the Source concert.

Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues.

Their second and final album, Rhythm and Stealth ( 1999 ) maintained a similar style, and featured Roots Manuva, Afrika Bambaataa, and MC Cheshire Cat from Birmingham.

In April 2011, Johnson played several sold out shows as part of the Kilkenny Rhythm & Roots Festival in Ireland.

They performed at festivals such as Floyd Fest, Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival, and Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion.

Paleface and drummer Mo spent the next year touring from coast to coast in support of the album, including performances at festivals such as Pickathon ( Portland, OR ), Riverbend ( Chattanooga TN ) and Bristol Rhythm And Roots ( Bristol, VA-TN ), as well as showcases such as Tennessee Shines @ Bijou Theatre ( WDVX Knoxville TN ), Non-com ( WXPN & World Cafe Live, Philadelphia PA ), and South By Southwest Festival ( Austin, TX ).

Katz, ( De La Soul, Big Daddy Kane, Ghostface Killah ) is known mostly in hip hop circles for his work with The Rhythm Roots Allstars.

* Video of Tornado Rider at 2012 Rhythm & Roots Festival

Gibson was honored for his contributions as a center piece in the CBS documentary Rhythm Of The Heart: The Roots and History of Gospel Music, hosted by the former anchor of Good Morning America.

In the summer of 2009, Langhorne Slim began playing larger venues including the Newport Folk Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Lollapalooza, and the Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Every September, Bristol hosts the old-time music festival, Rhythm & Roots Reunion.

Roots of Rhythm: Get 50-60 men and women together, each thumping a drum, led by a master whose chops and knowledge go all the way back to the roots of rhythm and you ’ ve got the resonance of heaven, the apotheosis of good vibrations.

Roots of Rhythm: Get 50-60 men and women together, each thumping a drum, led by a master whose chops and knowledge go all the way back to the roots of rhythm and you ’ ve got the resonance of heaven, the apotheosis of good vibrations.