A Brief History Of Scranton Pennsylvania

Author : Cheryl A. Kashuba
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-13
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625842947

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A Brief History of Scranton, Pennsylvania by Cheryl A. Kashuba Pdf

The intense heat of the steel mills and the clatter of coal-filled locomotives once filled the streets of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Hardworking immigrants, iron rails, and anthracite coal from beneath the surface of the lush Lackawanna River Valley powered America’s Industrial Revolution, and until World War II, the city reigned as a cutting-edge boomtown. Local journalist Cheryl A. Kashuba chronicles the history of Scranton from the glory days of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company and the Dickson Works through the post-Industrial decline and an eventual revitalization of the city. With a deft hand, Kashuba captures the spirit of a proud community and creates a fascinating portrait of the Electric City.

Author : David Craft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89065703571

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History of Scranton, Pennsylvania by David Craft Pdf

Author : Patrick Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0982256558

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Industrial Pioneers by Patrick Brown Pdf

During the nineteenth century, Scranton served as the face of a rising America and a hub of technology and innovation'¿¿between 1840 and 1902, the city of Scranton changed from a lazy backwoods community to a modern industrial society with 100,000 residents. During this time, Scranton'¿¿s citizens desperately tried to adapt their thinking to keep up with the rapid changes around them, and in the process forged the world views that would define the twentieth century.

Author : Glenna Lang
Publisher : New Village Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613321393

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Jane Jacobs's First City by Glenna Lang Pdf

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs’s ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobs’s First City vividly reveals how this influential thinker and writer’s classic works germinated in the once vibrant, mid-size city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Jane spent her initial eighteen years. In the 1920s and 1930s, Scranton was a place of enormous diversity and opportunity. Small businesses of all kinds abounded and flourished, quality public education was available to and supported by all, and even recent immigrants could save enough to buy a house. Opposing political parties joined forces to tackle problems, and citizens worked together for the public good. Through interviews with contemporary Scrantonians and research of historic newspapers, city directories, and vital records, author Glenna Lang has uncovered Scranton as young Jane experienced it and shows us the lasting impact of her growing up in this thriving and accessible environment. Readers can follow the development of Jane’s acute observational abilities from childhood through her passion in early adulthood to understand and write about what she saw. Reflecting Jane’s belief in trusting one’s own direct observation above all, this volume has been richly illustrated with historic and modern color images that help bring alive a lost Scranton. The book demonstrates why, at the end of Jacobs’s life, her thoughts and conversations increasingly returned to Scranton and the potential for cohesion and inclusiveness in all cities.

Author : Cheryl A. Kashuba and Roger DuPuis II
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467134125

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Scranton by Cheryl A. Kashuba and Roger DuPuis II Pdf

After incorporation in 1866, Scranton demonstrated an indomitable spirit that made it the Electric City and the Anthracite Capital of the World. Nestled in the scenic Lackawanna River Valley, Scranton carried that spirit through the changing economic landscape of the mid-20th century as its coal, railroad, and textile industries declined. In a cityscape that recalls its past, Scranton continues to find creative uses for its iconic structures. The community of Scranton embraces growth and change while celebrating its rich heritage with traditions like trips to the Saturday farmers' market at the historic Iron Furnaces, rides along the old Laurel Line trolley tracks to a RailRiders baseball game, celebrations of rich ethnic heritage at festivals throughout the year, and many more.

Author : Bill Conlogue
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780271063218

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Here and There by Bill Conlogue Pdf

The global economy threatens the uniqueness of places, people, and experiences. In Here and There, Bill Conlogue tests the assumption that literature and local places matter less and less in a world that economists describe as “flat,” politicians believe has “globalized,” and social scientists imagine as a “global village.” Each chapter begins at home, journeys elsewhere, and returns to the author’s native and chosen region, northeastern Pennsylvania. Through the prisms of literature and history, the book explores tensions and conflicts within the region created by national and global demand for its resources: fertile farmland, forest products, anthracite coal, and college-educated young people. Making connections between local and global environmental issues, Here and There uses the Pennsylvania watersheds of urban Lackawanna and rural Lackawaxen to highlight the importance of understanding and protecting the places we call home.

Author : Scotch-Irish Society in America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Scots-Irish
ISBN : CHI:089597408

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The Scotch-Irish in America by Scotch-Irish Society in America Pdf

Author : Horace Hollister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Lackawanna County (Pa.)
ISBN : UOM:39015027762569

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History of the Lackawanna Valley by Horace Hollister Pdf

Author : Glenna Lang
Publisher : New Village Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613321409

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Jane Jacobs's First City by Glenna Lang Pdf

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs’s ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobs’s First City vividly reveals how this influential thinker and writer’s classic works germinated in the once vibrant, mid-size city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Jane spent her initial eighteen years. In the 1920s and 1930s, Scranton was a place of enormous diversity and opportunity. Small businesses of all kinds abounded and flourished, quality public education was available to and supported by all, and even recent immigrants could save enough to buy a house. Opposing political parties joined forces to tackle problems, and citizens worked together for the public good. Through interviews with contemporary Scrantonians and research of historic newspapers, city directories, and vital records, author Glenna Lang has uncovered Scranton as young Jane experienced it and shows us the lasting impact of her growing up in this thriving and accessible environment. Readers can follow the development of Jane’s acute observational abilities from childhood through her passion in early adulthood to understand and write about what she saw. Reflecting Jane’s belief in trusting one’s own direct observation above all, this volume has been richly illustrated with historic and modern color images that help bring alive a lost Scranton. The book demonstrates why, at the end of Jacobs’s life, her thoughts and conversations increasingly returned to Scranton and the potential for cohesion and inclusiveness in all cities.

Author : A.C. Bernardi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614236924

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Haunted Scranton by A.C. Bernardi Pdf

A tour of the spookiest spots in this Pennsylvania city, filled with local history and legends . . . Includes photos! At the heart of the Lackawanna Valley, Scranton is haunted by those who once walked its streets and worked its mines and rail lines. From the woman in white who lingers in Courthouse Square to the passenger of trolley car #46 who never reached her destination, the specters of Scranton make their presence known. Supernatural investigator A.C. Bernardi chronicles chilling tales of the city’s landmarks, from the mysterious happenings on the sixth floor of the Lackawanna Station Hotel to stories of the angry spirits of victims of the Spanish influenza epidemic who lurk in the basement of the Banshee Pub. Join him as he traverses the dark side of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Author : Paul A. Shackel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252054518

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The Ruined Anthracite by Paul A. Shackel Pdf

Once a busy if impoverished center for the anthracite coal industry, northeastern Pennsylvania exists today as a region suffering inexorable decline--racked by economic hardship and rampant opioid abuse, abandoned by young people, and steeped in xenophobic fear. Paul A. Shackel merges analysis with oral history to document the devastating effects of a lifetime of structural violence on the people who have stayed behind. Heroic stories of workers facing the dangers of underground mining stand beside accounts of people living their lives in a toxic environment and battling deprivation and starvation by foraging, bartering, and relying on the good will of neighbors. As Shackel reveals the effects of these long-term traumas, he sheds light on people’s poor health and lack of well-being. The result is a valuable on-the-ground perspective that expands our understanding of the social fracturing, economic decay, and anger afflicting many communities across the United States. Insightful and dramatic, The Ruined Anthracite combines archaeology, documentary research, and oral history to render the ongoing human cost of environmental devastation and unchecked capitalism.

Author : Carolyn Kitch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271068855

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Pennsylvania in Public Memory by Carolyn Kitch Pdf

What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.

Author : Frank J. McVeigh,Loreen Therese Wolfer
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761828311

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Brief History of Social Problems by Frank J. McVeigh,Loreen Therese Wolfer Pdf

In this book, Frank McVeigh and Loreen Wolfer take an historical approach to examine the causes and conflicts behind ten major social problems that have existed for nearly 230 years. Using a critical thinking perspective of the history, sociology, politics, and economics of the period, the authors analyze social problems as a series of conflicts between those with power and those who were at one time virtually powerless. Embedded in this analysis is a discussion of how the shift from a Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft society has influenced how we address these problems. Using these themes, McVeigh and Wolfer provide thought-provoking insight into the ways individuals, groups, and social institutions change over time, gaining or losing power. The book contains a preface by Arthur Shostak, Drexel University.

Author : David E. Washburn
Publisher : Inquiry International
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Minorities
ISBN : 0822942062

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The Peoples of Pennsylvania by David E. Washburn Pdf

Author : Jack Shean
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467123358

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Scranton's Hill Section by Jack Shean Pdf

The hills east of Scranton's downtown are home to one of the most eclectic and historic neighborhoods in America. Scranton's aptly named Hill Section developed over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, from what was originally rugged terrain and dense forest to a socially diverse enclave. The area's close proximity to Scranton's commercial center and unparalleled views of the Lackawanna Valley attracted many of Scranton's wealthiest and most prominent citizens, including the city's namesake Scranton family, to build palatial mansions in a myriad of architectural styles on its many hills. Middle-class citizens soon followed suit, building smaller but equally splendid homes alongside their elite neighbors. To serve the Hill Section's growing population, civic leaders organized religious and community institutions, and local merchants developed commercial enterprises. Ultimately, the Hill Section became home to many well-known educational and medical centers, beautiful parks, and cultural establishments. In the 21st century, the Hill Section is still a thriving community that continues to preserve its heritage. Scranton's Hill Section tells the story of a distinctive neighborhood full of diverse people whose legacies are the true embodiment of American history.