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The Scrantonian

Chronicling the Electric City

1840

Places

8 locations in the archive

The landscape tells the story. Stone furnaces rise from the valley floor where ore once smelted into iron. Churches anchor neighborhoods built by immigrants who came for work and stayed to raise families. Some buildings have been demolished, others repurposed, a few preserved as monuments to what was.

Walking Scranton today means walking through layers of history, visible if you know where to look.

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school

All Saints Academy

1425 Jackson Street, Scranton, PA 18504

All Saints Academy has provided Catholic elementary education on Jackson Street in West Scranton for over 80 years. …

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building

Board of Trade Building

507 Linden Street, Scranton, PA 18503

Scranton’s first skyscraper, built in 1896 as headquarters for the city’s Board of Trade, gained fame for …

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mine

Brooks Mine

1901 Mulberry St, Scranton, PA 18510

Excavated in 1900 as an educational showpiece at Nay Aug Park, Brooks Mine is believed to be the first tourist mine in …

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cemetery

Cathedral Cemetery

1708 Oram Street, Scranton, PA 18504

The largest diocesan cemetery in the Diocese of Scranton system, Cathedral Cemetery sits on the Oram Street hilltop in …

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tunnel

Crown Avenue Tunnel

Crown Avenue, Scranton, PA

A 4,747-foot railroad tunnel beneath Crown Avenue in South Scranton, built in 1904-1905 for the Lackawanna and Wyoming …

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building

David Wenzel Tree House

Nay Aug Park, 500 Arthur Avenue, Scranton, PA 18510

The David Wenzel Tree House sits 150 feet above the Nay Aug Gorge in Scranton’s Nay Aug Park. Built in 2007 by …

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mine

Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour

1 Bald Mountain Road, Scranton, PA 18504

The Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour takes visitors 300 feet underground into the #190 Slope, the last deep anthracite mine to …

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historic site

Scranton Iron Furnaces

159 Cedar Ave, Scranton, PA 18505

Four stone blast furnaces stand at Cedar Avenue in Scranton, the largest surviving ironmaking complex from the …