Scranton in 1855, as depicted by George Inness's painting of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad roundhouse.

The ad campaign depicted Scranton as a " dope smoking hippie ," complete with 1960s-era pictures of the lieutenant governor wearing long hair, a beard, and tie-dyed clothing.

Metropolitan Edison notified the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency ( PEMA ), which in turn contacted state and local agencies, Governor Richard L. Thornburgh and lieutenant governor William Scranton III, to whom Thornburgh assigned responsibility for collecting and reporting on information about the accident.

Wealthy summer visitors from Scranton migrated to Waverly on a permanent basis, and the town's reputation as a white-collar bedroom community was cemented.

Today Carbondale is served by the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority and its designated-operator Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad on a single remaining D & H mainline track running to Scranton.

Jermyn, known as " The Birthplace of First Aid in America ," is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, on the Lackawanna River, northeast of Scranton.

Moosic is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, six miles ( 9 km ) south of Scranton and northeast of Wilkes-Barre on the Lackawanna River.

Olyphant is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, approximately five miles ( 8 km ) northeast of Scranton on the Lackawanna River in the heart of the anthracite region of the State.

Scranton was incorporated as a borough on February 14, 1856, and as a city on April 23, 1866.

The NYO & W Railroad, which depended heavily on its Scranton branch for freight traffic, was abandoned in 1957.

In 1962, businessman Alex Grass opened his first " Thrif D Discount Center " drugstore on Lackawanna Avenue in downtown Scranton.

Financial consultant Gary Lewis, who lives in Scranton, was quoted as estimating that " on 5 July the city had just $ 5, 000 cash in hand.

The fire department has eight fire stations, which are located in the city's South Side, Central City, the Pinebrook section, West Side, North Scranton, Bull's Head, the Petersburg section, and on East Mountain.

Police headquarters is located on South Washington Avenue in downtown Scranton.

Taylor is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, four miles ( six km ) southwest of Scranton on the Lackawanna River.

The township was the site of a plane crash on May 21, 2000, when an airplane, in its attempt to land at the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton International Airport in nearby Avoca, crashed in what was described by the BBC as a " wooded area " of the township near the intersection of Bear Creek Boulevard ( PA-Route 115 ) and the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, killing the pilot as well as all 19 passengers.

Duryea is a borough in the Greater Pittston area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, south of Scranton on the Lackawanna River.

On October 22, Bishop O ' Hara arrived from Scranton and sent Father Mack ( of the St. Vincent's congregation ) to gain access to the parsonage, but when he knocked on the door, he was " met by three guns pointing at him from an upstairs window.

The war between the Polish faction and the Scranton Diocese settled into a standstill for the Christmas holidays, but in January 1890, war resumed, and this time the focus was the cemetery on Welsh Hill which the Diocese had created for use by both the Poles and the Lithuanians.

On March 6, trains began running on schedule to Scranton on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.

Equestrian statues of him can be found at Kosciuszko Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, across from the Polish Basilica of St. Josaphat, Chicago's Museum Campus on Solidarity Drive and in Detroit on Michigan Ave. Other statues can be found in Boston Public Garden ; Scranton, Pennsylvania ; a bust in the U. S. Capitol as well as a statue Lafayette Park in Washington, D. C .; the United States Military Academy at West Point ; Williams Park in St. Petersburg, Florida ; and Red Bud Springs Memorial Park in Kosciusko, Mississippi ; in Kosciuszko Park in East Chicago, Indiana ; and ( with Kazimierz Pułaski ) in Poland, Ohio, a township and village named in honor of the two heroes of the American Revolution.

The speed limit is 65 mph ( 105 km / h ) on rural segments, with slower posted speeds within the cities of Marmarth, Rhame, Bowman, Scranton and Hettinger.

1855, represents the railroad's first roundhouse at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and integrates technology and wilderness within an observed landscape ; in time, not only would Inness shun the industrial presence in favor of bucolic or agrarian subjects, but he would produce much of his mature work in the studio, drawing on his visual memory to produce scenes that were often inspired by specific places, yet increasingly concerned with formal considerations.

The most significant addition came in 1890, when the O & W constructed a 54-mile branch from Cadosia, New York to Scranton, Pennsylvania, through the rich anthracite coal reserves in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley.

Wilkes-Barre / Scranton International Airport has seen major changes to its route map between 2001 and 2012.

Though he impressed the Yankees in spring training, he was optioned to the Triple-A Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees.

Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley, and the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Carbondale.

Scranton forged ahead as the center of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry.

It receives the Lackawanna River southwest of Scranton and turns sharply to the southwest, flowing through the former anthracite industrial heartland in the mountain ridges of northeastern Pennsylvania, past Wilkes-Barre, Nanticoke, Berwick, Bloomsburg, and Danville.

Paralleling the Lehigh Valley Railroad from the Hudson River to Scranton, the CNJ was a fierce competitor for anthracite coal and freight traffic.

The canal linked New York City with the rich coal deposits of the Carbondale, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton areas, providing fuel for both the city's industrial foundries and heating the expanding number of residences.

Born to Irish immigrants in Minooka, Pennsylvania ( now a part of Scranton ), O ' Neill was one of six brothers who escaped a life in the coal mines by playing in the major leagues.

His family, of Irish descent, was originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania, but his parents moved to New York in order for his father, a devoutly Roman Catholic former coal miner who began working as a coal miner at age 10, to attend Fordham University School of Law.

Connell's family moved to Scranton when he was a small child, and at the age of 7 he left school to work in the coal industry to help support his family.

He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Rodham ( 1879 – 1965 ) and Hannah Jones ( 1882 – 1952 ), British immigrants descended from a line of coal miners from Co. Durham and Wales.

Scranton is the only city in the Eastern United States with the vestiges of the era of industrialization ( 1840-1920 ) in plain sight, 40 acres in the middle of downtown, with car shops, locomotive shops, roundhouse, turntable, grand passenger station, a working yard, iron furnaces, passenger excursions -- the whole works and a restored coal mine nearby.

Eckley Miners ' Village near Hazleton and the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour in Scranton highlight coal mining history, while Steamtown National Historic Site and the Electric City Trolley Museum, both in Scranton, focus on transportation history.

Although coal trains stopped traveling south from Phillipsburg to Trenton in the 1960's, northbound cargo freight heading for Scranton and Maybrook and southbound cargo freight heading for Allentown and Trenton continued until the Bel Del's ultimate demise.

When, in 1938, the Scranton Miners of Scranton, Pennsylvania team moved to Hartford, Connecticut and renamed the Hartford Bees, the league was renamed as the Eastern League.

He attended Yale University ( where he studied French history and was a member of the Berzelius Secret Society along with friends such as William Warren Scranton, later Governor of Pennsylvania ), and the University of Virginia School of Law.

A color videotape containing the first, second and fourth quarters of the telecast from WYOU ( the CBS affiliate for Scranton, Pennsylvania ) was found in 2005 and is in the process of being restored.

Scranton held a press conference in which he was reassuring, yet confusing, about this possibility, stating that though there had been a " small release of radiation ... no increase in normal radiation levels " had been detected.

Later that day, Scranton changed his statement, saying that the situation was " more complex than the company first led us to believe ".

Ericsson still had a dislike for the U. S. Navy, but he was nevertheless convinced by Cornelius Scranton Bushnell to submit an ironclad ship design to them.

Scranton Memorial Library was a 1901 gift to the townspeople from Mary Scranton.

A committee of three men from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was responsible for choosing a name from among the entries ; although it considered the names " Wellington " and " Gladmere ", it chose the name " Bethany Beach " suggested by H. L. Atkinson of the University of Chicago.

) was born in Olyphant, PA, though she proudly states in interviews that she was " raised near Scranton, Pennsylvania.

In 1856, the Borough of Scranton was officially incorporated.

Scranton was incorporated as a city of 35, 000 in 1866 in Luzerne County when the surrounding boroughs of Hyde Park ( now part of the city's West Side ) and Providence ( now part of North Scranton ) were merged with Scranton.

In the late 1890s Scranton was home to a series of early International League baseball teams.

By the United States Census of 1900, the population of Scranton was about 102, 026, making it the 38th-largest U. S. city.

This patchwork still survives and is represented by the Catholic and Orthodox churches that primarily dot the North Scranton, West Side, and South Side neighborhoods of the city ; a substantial Jewish community was established as well.

By 1938, the Scranton company was also pressing records for Brunswick, Melotone, and Vocalion.

Scranton had been the hub of its operations until the Erie Lackawanna merger, when it was no longer needed in this capacity ; it was another severe blow to the labor market.