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42-85152. Website. www.wilkes-barre.city. Wilkes-Barre (/ ˈwɪlksbɛəri / WILKS-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 ...
June 22, 1988. The Market Street Bridge is a distinguished concrete arch bridge that crosses the Susquehanna River between Kingston and Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]
A restaurant in the Rolling Mill Hill section of Wilkes-Barre was named "The Hart" in honor of former mayor Daniel Hart. The restaurant closed in and was sold at Sheriff Sale in 2009. [1] The John B. McGlynn Learning Center, located in the Boulevard Townhomes on Wilkes-Barre Boulevard, was founded in 1988.
Another story about the history of the Wilkes-Barre Fire Department, published in the Wilkes-Barre Semi-Weekly Record on Oct. 5, 1897, reported borough town council in August 1817, agreed to ...
42-079-85160. Website. twp.wilkesbarre.pa.us. Wilkes-Barre Township is a township with home rule status in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is adjacent to the city of Wilkes-Barre. The population of the township was 3,219 at the 2020 census.
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 ...
Locale. Pennsylvania. Dates of operation. 1892–1939. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad (WB&E) was a railroad that operated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States from 1892 to 1939.
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 ...