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Placed within the cornerstone was a metal box which contained a Bible, a list of county officials and clerks, a 1905 edition of the Wilkes-Barre Record Almanac, the Smull Legislative Hand Book, copies of local newspapers (Bratstvo, Hazleton Plain Speaker, Hazleton Sentinel, Hazleton Standard, Pittson Gazette, Wilkes-Barre Leader, Wilkes-Barre ...
Located on 341 Carey Avenue, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Elmer L. Meyers Junior/Senior High School opened in 1930 and closed in 2021. [2] [3] Both a junior and senior public high school, it offered education to students in grades 7–12. [4]
The majority of the line was once the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.The first segment, which runs between Easton and Allentown, opened in September 1855.Later extensions and corporate acquisitions carried the Lehigh Valley main line to Buffalo, New York to the west and Perth Amboy, New Jersey to the east.
The River Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.The district includes 215 contributing buildings near downtown in Wilkes-Barre on Franklin St., River St., W. River St., W. Jackson St., W. Union St., W. Market St., W. Northampton St., W. South St., and W. Ross, St., and Barnum Pl. [2] The buildings were built between 1860 ...
Full name: F. M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts: Former names: Comerford Theatre (1938–49) Paramount Theatre (1949–86): Address: 71 Public Square Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701-2507
The Danville, Hazelton and Wilkes-Barre Railroad opened from Sunbury to South Danville in 1869 [2] and past Catawissa to Tomhicken in 1871. [3] The North and West Branch Railway opened the line from Catawissa to Wilkes-Barre in the early 1880s, completing the line soon to be called Wilkes-Barre Branch. [4]
Wilkes College became Wilkes University in December 1989, and the school officially received university status a month later, in January 1990. [8] [14]Wilkes University opened the School of Pharmacy in 1996, [17] and in 1999, through a donation from Mrs. Geraldine Nesbitt Orr, the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy was established.
Bill O Boyle, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. October 26, 2023 at 9:19 PM Brown was speaking at Thursday grand opening of Keystone Mission's new Innovation Center for Homeless & Poverty at the ...