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First Electric Streetcars Begin Operation
On November 30, 1886, Scranton Suburban Railway’s Car No. 4 carried its first paying passengers on a 2.5-mile …
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First Electric Streetcars Begin Operation
On November 30, 1886, Scranton Suburban Railway’s Car No. 4 carried its first paying passengers on a 2.5-mile route from Franklin Avenue to Green Ridge, making Scranton the home of the first street railway in the United States built to run solely on electric power.
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Fidelity Bank
Founded in 1902 as The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank on a Dunmore street corner, Fidelity grew from a single office …
Place
Dunmore Cemetery
Established in 1828 on 35 hilly acres in Dunmore, this Victorian-era burial ground holds more than 25,000 graves, from …
Person
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs was born in Scranton on May 4, 1916, and grew up in Green Ridge and Dunmore before taking an unpaid …