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4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad, more commonly known as the Laurel Line, was a Pennsylvania third rail electric interurban streetcar line which operated commuter train service from 1903 to 1952, and freight service until 1976. Its main line ran from Scranton to Wilkes-Barre .
Share of the Wilkes-Barre & Eastern Railroad Company from the 14. February 1893. The WB&E was a wholly owned subsidiary of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (NYS&W). It was chartered in 1892 to provide the NYS&W with a route to bring coal from the mines in northeastern Pennsylvania for delivery to the port of Edgewater, New Jersey ...
Various gangs in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The Bufalino crime family, [2] also known as the Pittston crime family, [3] Scranton Wilkes-Barre crime family, [3] Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [4] Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [5] [6] or Scranton Mafia, [7] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania ...
Wilkes-Barre ( / ˈwɪlksbɛər / WILKS-bair or /- bɛəri / -bair-ee) is a city in and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city, after Scranton, in the Scranton ...
In 1867, he came to Wilkes-Barre and joined the staff of the Wilkes-Barre Record. For many years Barthe was the editor of the Plymouth Weekly Star newspaper. He was Plymouth's fifth burgess, elected on February 16, 1875. Barthe died on June 4, 1892, and is buried at Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, Pennsylvania.
The Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway (also known as the Cannon Ball [1]) was an electric railway in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania connecting the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton. It operated from 1903 to 1933 using a third rail and had no grade crossings. It was approximately thirty miles long and had one tunnel between Warrior Run and ...
School website. G.A.R. Memorial Junior/Senior High School (commonly known throughout the area simply as 'G.A.R.') was a high school located on 250 South Grant Street, in Wilkes-Barre, located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States . G.A.R. was both a junior and senior public high school, offering education to students in grades 7–12.
Ticket prices are $20 for adults, and $10 for children 10 and under. Tickets can be purchased online at kirbycenter.org, ticketmaster.com, and at the F.M. Kirby Center Box Office during regular ...
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] Meyers provided education to approximately 898 students in grades 7–12, [4] with a teacher ratio of ...
Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full and part-time). [3] Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University , [6] and became an independent institution in 1947, naming itself Wilkes College, after English radical ...