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Scranton’s history remains visible in the places it left behind. 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, and a few preserved as monuments to what was.
Walking Scranton today means walking through layers of history, visible if you know where to look.
school
1425 Jackson Street, Scranton, PA 18504
All Saints Academy has provided Catholic elementary education on Jackson Street in West Scranton for over 80 years. …
building
507 Linden Street, Scranton, PA 18503
Scranton’s first skyscraper, built in 1896 as headquarters for the city’s Board of Trade, gained fame for …
mine
1901 Mulberry St, Scranton, PA 18510
Excavated in 1900 as an educational showpiece at Nay Aug Park, Brooks Mine is believed to be the first tourist mine in …
cemetery
1708 Oram Street, Scranton, PA 18504
The largest diocesan cemetery in the Diocese of Scranton system, Cathedral Cemetery sits on the Oram Street hilltop in …
tunnel
Crown Avenue, Scranton, PA
A 4,747-foot railroad tunnel beneath Crown Avenue in South Scranton, built in 1904-1905 for the Lackawanna and Wyoming …
building
Nay Aug Park, 500 Arthur Avenue, Scranton, PA 18510
The David Wenzel Tree House opened 150 feet above the Nay Aug Gorge in 2007 as Pennsylvania’s first structure of …
building
700 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, PA 18503
A French Renaissance railroad station completed in 1908, designed by Kenneth Murchison and faced in Indiana limestone, …
neighborhood
Lackawanna Avenue corridor, Scranton, PA
The commercial heart of Scranton since the 1860s, listed on the National Register as the Lackawanna Avenue Commercial …
cemetery
400 Church St, Dunmore, PA 18512
Established in 1828 on 35 hilly acres in Dunmore, this Victorian-era burial ground holds more than 25,000 graves, from …
neighborhood
East Mountain, Scranton, PA
A rugged neighborhood on Moosic Mountain about three miles east of center city, settled first for iron ore in 1841 and …
museum
1901 Mulberry Street, Scranton, PA 18510
Northeastern Pennsylvania’s first museum opened on Memorial Day 1908 in Nay Aug Park, founded with Dr. Isaiah …
church
520 Vine St., Scranton, PA 18509
Built in 1915 at 520 Vine Street, First Church of Christ, Scientist gave a Scranton congregation a limestone temple …
cemetery
1830 Jefferson Ave, Dunmore, PA 18509
Incorporated in Dunmore in April 1870, Forest Hill Cemetery holds about 18,000 burials. Its lot books, grave entries, …
mine
1 Bald Mountain Road, Scranton, PA 18504
The Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour takes visitors 300 feet underground into the #190 Slope, the last deep anthracite mine to …
park
98 Mountain Lake Road, Scranton, PA
Mina Robinson gave Mountain Lake and more than 24 acres on East Mountain to Scranton in 1911 as a memorial to her sons …
historic site
159 Cedar Ave, Scranton, PA 18505
Four stone blast furnaces stand at Cedar Avenue in Scranton, the largest surviving ironmaking complex from the …