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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 .
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.
Flood died in Wilkes-Barre on May 28, 1994. His funeral was held on May 30 in St. John's Church in Wilkes-Barre, with eulogies given by then-Governor Bob Casey and Representatives Paul Kanjorski and Joseph McDade. He was interred in the family plot at St. Mary's Cemetery in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. Legacy
Today, the township of Wilkes-Barre occupies a 1-by-3-mile (1.6 by 4.8 km) strip of land adjacent to the southeast border of what is now the city of Wilkes-Barre. Coal mining was a prominent industry in and around Wilkes-Barre Township in the late 19th and early 20th century.
The Bufalino crime family, also known as the Pittston crime family, Scranton Wilkes-Barre crime family, Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, or Scranton Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Pittston.
May 14—A state appellate court Tuesday upheld the decades long prison sentence for Dazon Wykie Turner, who was convicted by a Luzerne County jury of killing a man and injuring two women in a ...
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.
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 ...
Dance Theatre of Wilkes-Barre offers instruction in classical ballet, jazz and modern dance. Professional teaching staff includes owner Gina Malsky and Lauren Medico. This will also be the last ...
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 ...