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Chronicling the Electric City

The Scrantonian

A digital love letter to the history of Scranton, Pennsylvania

1840

Places

2 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.

Places

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. …

Places

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 …