Scranton, Pennsylvania

Name	Scranton
Settlement type	City
Official name	City of Scranton
Nickname	Electric City
Motto	Embracing Our People, Our Traditions, and Our Future
Pushpin map	Pennsylvania
Pushpin label position	left
Pushpin map caption	Location in Pennsylvania
Map caption	Location in Lackawanna County
Subdivision type	Country
Subdivision type1	Commonwealth
Subdivision type2	County
Subdivision name
Subdivision name1
Subdivision name2	Lackawanna
Leader title	Mayor
Leader name	Christopher Doherty (D)
Established title	Incorporated
Established title1
Established date	February 14, 1856 (Borough)
Established date1	April 23, 1866 (City)
Area total sq mi	25.44
Area total km2	65.89
Area land sq mi	25.23
Area land km2	65.33
Area water sq mi	0.21
Area water km2	0.55
Population as of	2010
Population note
Population total	76089
Population metro	563,631
Population density sq mi	3,006
Population density km2	1,161
Timezone	EST
Utc offset	-5
Timezone dst	EDT
Utc offset dst	-4
Coordinates display	inline,title
Coordinates type	region:US_type:city
Postal code type	ZIP Codes
Postal code	18447, 18501-18505, 18507-18510, 18512, 18514-18515, 18517-18519, 18522, 18540, 18577
Website	www.ScrantonPA.gov

Scranton is a city in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the largest principal city in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Scranton had a total population of 76,089 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most-populous city after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, and Reading.

Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley. It is the largest city located in a contiguous quilt-work of former anthracite coal mining communities including the smaller cities of Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, and Carbondale. Scranton was incorporated as a borough on February 14, 1856, and as a city on April 23, 1866.

History

Humble beginnings (1776–1845)

Present-day Scranton and the surrounding area had been inhabited by the native Lenape tribe, from whose language "Lackawanna" (or "le-can-hanna", meaning "stream that forks") is derived. Gradually, settlers from New England came to the area in the late 18th century, establishing mills and other small businesses, and their village became known as Slocum Hollow. Isaac Tripp, known as the first settler, built his home here in 1778, which still stands in the Providence section of the city as a testament to this era.

Industrial foundation established: iron, coal and railroads (1846–1899)

Though anthracite coal was being mined in Carbondale to the north and Wilkes-Barre to the south, the industries that precipitated the city's growth were iron and steel. Iron T-rails were first manufactured in America at the Montour Iron Works in Danville, Pennsylvania, on October 8, 1845. Prior to that they were made in England and shipped overseas. In 1840, brothers Selden T. and George W. Scranton founded what would become the Lackawanna Steel Company. The company began producing iron T-rails in 1847 for the Erie Railroad in New York state. Soon after, Scranton became a major producer of these rails. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W;) was founded in 1851 by the Scrantons to transport iron and coal products from the Lackawanna valley. The Pennsylvania Coal Company built a gravity railroad here for this purpose as well. In 1856, the Borough of Scranton was officially incorporated and named after its industrious founders. The Delaware and Hudson (D&H;) Canal Company, which had its own gravity railroad from Carbondale to Honesdale, built a steam railroad that entered Scranton in 1863.

Scranton was incorporated as a city of 35,000 in 1866 in Luzerne County when the surrounding boroughs of Hyde Park (now part of the city's West Side) and Providence (now part of North Scranton) were merged with Scranton. The city became the county seat of the newly formed Lackawanna County in 1878. The nation's first successful, continuously operating electrified streetcar (trolley) system was established in the city in 1886, giving it the nickname "The Electric City". In the late 1890s Scranton was home to a series of early International League baseball teams. By 1890, three other railroads had built lines to tap into the rich supply of coal in and around the city, including the Erie Railroad, the Central Railroad of New Jersey and finally the New York, Ontario and Western Railway (NYO&W;). Underneath the city, a network of coal veins was mined by workers who were given jobs by the wealthy coal barons with low pay, long hours and unsafe working conditions. Children as young as 8 or 9 worked 14-hour days separating slate from coal in the breakers.

Growth and prosperity (1900–1945)

By the United States Census of 1900, the population of Scranton was about 102,026, making it the 38th largest city in the United States.

The turn of the 20th century saw many beautiful homes of Victorian architecture built in the Hill and Green Ridge sections of the city. In 1901, the dwindling local iron ore supply took the Lackawanna Steel Company away to Lackawanna, New York, where iron ore from Minnesota was more readily available by ships on the Great Lakes. The city lost the industry on which it was founded.

Scranton forged ahead as the center of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry. During the first half of the 20th century, it became home to many groups of newly arrived immigrants from Eastern Europe. This patchwork still survives and is represented by the Catholic and Orthodox churches that primarily dot the North Scranton, West Side, and South Side neighborhoods of the city; a substantial Jewish community was established as well. In 1903, an electric interurban railroad known as the Laurel Line was started, and two years later connected to nearby Wilkes-Barre, to the southwest. Working conditions for miners were improved by the efforts of labor leaders like John Mitchell, who is honored with a statue on the downtown Courthouse Square.

Starting the early 1920s, the Scranton Button Company (founded in 1885 and a major maker of shellac buttons) became one of the primary makers of phonograph records. They pressed records for Emerson (whom they bought in 1924), as well as Regal, Cameo, Romeo, Banner, Domino, Conqueror, and after merging with Regal, Cameo, Banner, and the US branch of Pathe (makers of Pathe and Perfect) in July, 1929, became the American Record Corporation. From that point until 1938, Scranton also added Brunswick, Melotone, and Vocalion to their production schedule. In 1946, the company was acquired by Capitol (who continued to produce Capitol Records through the end of the vinyl era).

By the mid-1930s, the city population had swelled to over 140,000

The end of an era (1946–1984)

After World War II, coal lost favor to oil and natural gas. While some U.S. cities prospered in the post-war boom, the fortunes and population of Scranton (and the rest of Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties) began to diminish. Coal production and rail traffic declined rapidly throughout the 1950s. In 1952, the Laurel Line ceased passenger service. The Scranton Transit Company, whose trolleys had given the city its nickname, transferred all operations to buses as the 1954 holiday season approached. In 1955, some eastern and southern parts of the city were destroyed by the floods of Hurricane Diane, and 80 lives were lost. The NYO&W; Railroad, which depended heavily on its Scranton branch for freight traffic, was abandoned in 1957.

The Knox Mine Disaster of January 1959 all but erased the mining industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The event eliminated thousands of jobs as the waters of the Susquehanna River flooded the mines. The DL&W; Railroad, nearly bankrupt by the drop in coal traffic and the effects of Hurricane Diane, merged with the Erie Railroad in 1960. Scranton had been the hub of its operations until the Erie Lackawanna merger, when it was no longer needed in this capacity; it was another severe blow to the labor market. Mine subsidence was a spreading problem in the city as pillar supports in abandoned mines began to fail; cave-ins sometimes consumed entire blocks of homes. The area was then scarred by abandoned coal mining structures, strip mines, and massive culm dumps. During the 1960s and 1970s, the silk and other textile industries shrunk as jobs moved south or overseas.

There were some small bright spots during the era. In 1962, businessman Alex Grass opened his first "Thrif D Discount Center" drugstore on Lackawanna Avenue in downtown Scranton. The store, an immediate success, was the progenitor of the Rite Aid drugstore chain.

Stabilization and restoration (1985–present)

There has been an emphasis on revitalization since the mid-1980s. Local government and much of the community at large have adopted a renewed interest in the city's buildings and history. Aged and empty properties are being redesigned and marketed as tourist attractions. The Steamtown National Historic Site captures the area's once-prominent position in the railroad industry. The former DL&W; train station was restored as the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel. The Electric City Trolley Museum was created next to the DL&W; yards that the Steamtown NHS occupies. Other attractions responsible for recent popularity and favorable attention to the Scranton area include the Snö Mountain ski resort (formerly Montage Mountain), the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, AHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees (formerly the Red Barons), AAA affiliate of the New York Yankees, and their PNC Field, and the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain concert venue.

Geography

Scranton is located at (41.410629, −75.667411). Its total area of 25.4 square miles (65.9 km²) includes 25.2 square miles (65.3 km²) of land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of water, according to the United States Census Bureau. Scranton is drained by the Lackawanna River.

Center City is about 750 feet (229 m) above sea level, although the hilly city's inhabited portions range about from . The city is flanked by mountains to the east and west whose elevations range from .

Climate

Scranton lies in a humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfa). It features four distinct seasons, where summers are typically warm (with occasional heatwaves), fall and spring are generally mild, and winter is cold and snowy. Precipitation is almost uniformly distributed throughout the year.

January lows average and highs average . The lowest officially recorded temperature was in 1994. July lows average and highs average . The highest temperature on record was in 1936. Early fall and mid-winter are generally driest, with February being the driest month with only of average precipitation.

Snowfall is variable, with some winters bringing light snow and others bringing numerous snowstorms. Average snowfall is per year, with the months of January and February receiving the highest at just over and each. Rainfall is generally spread throughout the year, with 10 to 13 wet days per month, at an average annual rate of .

Police

The Scranton Police Patrol Division is broken down into three shifts. Police headquarters is located on South Washington Avenue in downtown Scranton. Special Units include Arson Investigations, Auto Theft Task Force, Child Abuse Investigation, Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Investigation, Juvenile Unit, Special Investigations Unit, Canine Unit, Community Development and Highway Unit. Local television stations include:

WNEP-TV ABC affiliate

WBRE-TV NBC affiliate

WYOU-TV CBS affiliate

WVIA-TV PBS affiliate

WOLF-TV Fox affiliate

WQMY MyNetworkTV affiliate

WSWB CW affiliate

WQPX ION Television affiliate

Local public-access television and government-access television (GATV) programming is aired on Comcast cable TV channels 19 and 21.

Scranton hosts the headquarters of Times-Shamrock Communications, which publishes the city's major newspaper, The Times-Tribune, a Pulitzer Prize-winning broadsheet daily founded in 1870. Times-Shamrock also publishes the Electric City, a weekly entertainment tabloid and The Citizens' Voice, a daily tabloid based in Wilkes-Barre. The Scranton Post is a weekly general interest broadsheet. The Times Leader is a daily paper that primarily covers Wilkes-Barre and also publishes in Scranton, and the Weekender is a Wilkes-Barre-based entertainment tabloid with distribution in Scranton. There are several other print publications with a more narrow focus, including the Union News, La Voz Latina, and Melanian News.

The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre radio market is ranked #71 in the country by Arbitron.

Sports

Scranton's professional sports date to 1887, when the minor-league Scranton Indians became the city's first professional baseball team. Many more followed, including teams in the Pennsylvania State League, Eastern League, Atlantic League, New York State League, New York-Penn League and the New York-Pennsylvania League. As of 2011, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees (formerly the Red Barons) of the International League play their home games at PNC Field in Moosic, south of Scranton.

In football, the Scranton Eagles, a semi-pro/minor league team, dominate their Empire Football League, having won 11 championships. The former arena football Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers, who played eight seasons at the Mohegan Sun Arena (formerly Wachovia Arena) in Wilkes-Barre Township had made the playoffs in their last six years of existence and contended for the ArenaCup VIII in 2007 and the ArenaCup X in 2009, their final year, but lost both times. Another semi-pro/minor league team the North East Pennsylvania Miners of the Big North East Football Federation (BNEFF) recently started play in the area in 2007.

The city's once had pro basketball teams, including the Scranton Apollos, Scranton Miners and Scranton Zappers. Syracuse University men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim played for the Miners before turning to coaching.

Professional ice hockey arrived in 1999 when the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League began play at the Mohegan Sun Arena (formerly Wachovia Arena) in Wilkes-Barre Township. The team won conference championships in 2001, 2004, and 2008.

Landmarks and attractions

showcases steam era railroading that gives visitors tours through Scranton and portions of the Pocono Mountains.]] Many of Scranton's attractions celebrate its heritage as an industrial center in iron and coal production as well as its ethnic diversity. The Scranton Iron Furnaces are remnants of the city's founding industry and of the Scranton family's Lackawanna Steel Company. The Steamtown National Historic Site seeks to preserve the history of steam locomotives. The Electric City Trolley Museum preserves and operates pieces of Pennsylvania streetcar history. The Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour at McDade Park is open for those who desire to learn about the history of mining and railroads in the Scranton area. The tours are conducted inside a part of a former working mine. The DL&W; Passenger Station is now a Radisson hotel with dining and banquet and conference facilities called Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel.

Museums in Scranton include the Everhart Museum in Nay Aug Park, which houses a collection of "natural history, science and art" exhibits and the Houdini Museum features films, exhibits, and a stage show. It is housed in a unique, century-old building. Terence Powderly's house, still a private dwelling, is one of the city's many historic buildings and the city's other National Historic Landmark besides Steamtown. Tripp House was built by the Tripp family in 1771 and is the oldest building in the city.

The city's religious history is evident in the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Ann which draws thousands of pilgrims to its annual novena and St. Stanislaus Cathedral which is the national seat of the Polish National Catholic Church in North America. The history of the founding of this denomination is intricately tied with Polish immigration to Scranton in the late 19th century.

Since the 1970s, Scranton has been the home to La Festa Italiana, a three day Italian festival, which takes place every Labor Day weekend on the courthouse square. The festival originally took place around Columbus Day, but was moved to Labor Day because of the cold weather that Scranton receives in October.

Scranton's large Irish population is represented in the annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade, first held in 1862. It is organized by the St. Patrick's Day Parade Association of Lackawanna County and is now the nation's fourth largest in attendance and second largest in per capita attendance. Over 8,000 people participate on the Saturday before Saint Patrick's Day including floats, bagpipe players, high school bands and Irish groups. In 2008, crowds estimated as high as 150,000 people congregated downtown for the event.

For recreational opportunities, there is Snö Mountain Ski Resort (formerly called "Montage Mountain"), which rivals the numerous resorts of the Poconos in popularity and offers a relatively comprehensive range of difficulty levels. The Steamtown Marathon has been held each October since 1996 and finishes in downtown Scranton. Nay Aug park is the largest of several parks in Scranton and was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. The city is the home of Electric Theatre Company, a professional Equity theatre with a nine month season.

The Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain, a partially covered amphitheater seating 17,500, is Scranton's primary concert venue. In the summer months, musical artists ranging from James Taylor to Dave Matthews Band perform. Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple is an impressive piece of architecture which houses several auditoriums and a large ballroom. It plays host to the Northeast Philharmonic, Broadway Theater and other touring performances.

Cooper's Seafood House, formerly the Erie Train Station, has been in business for over sixty years on North Washington Avenue.

In popular culture

, the fictional paper company on NBC's The Office hangs in downtown Scranton.]] The city is the home of the fictional Dunder-Mifflin paper company, the setting of NBC sitcom The Office. The program frequently refers to things in and around of Scranton, including the Mall at Steamtown, Cooper's Seafood House, Farley's Pub, Poor Richard's Pub, Alfredo's Pizza Cafe, The Bog, Montage Mountain, The Scranton Anthracite Museum, and Lake Wallenpaupack. The exterior of the Penn Paper & Supply at 215 Vine Street appears in the opening titles of the show. Other appearances in pop culture include: The city is imagined as a member of the class of interstellar Okies in James Blish's 1962 novel, A Life for the Stars. Scranton, in 2273, leaves an impoverished Earth behind, under Spindizzy drive. The 1973 Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning play That Championship Season by Jason Miller was based on the fictionalized lives of Scranton's 1957 state basketball champions. Miller wrote and directed the 1982 film, in which all exterior scenes were filmed in Scranton. The city is the subject of George Inness's 1855 painting, The Lackawanna Valley, which hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Harry Chapin's 1974 song "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" dramatizes the wreck of a truck carrying bananas on March 26, 1965, just outside downtown Scranton.

The Travel Channel's Magic Road Trip program featured the city's Houdini Museum as one of the world's top magic attractions.

The 2010 film Blue Valentine was filmed in the Scranton area; the University of Scranton campus and downtown Scranton appear in various scenes.

Transportation

The main highways that serve Scranton are Interstate 81, which runs north to Binghamton, New York and Ontario and south to Harrisburg and Tennessee; Interstate 84, which runs east to Milford and New England; Interstate 380, which runs southeast to Mount Pocono and Interstate 80 east to New York City and west to San Francisco; Interstate 476/Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, which runs south to Allentown and Philadelphia; U.S. Route 6, which runs east to Carbondale and parallel to I-84 to New England and west to Erie; and U.S. Route 11, which runs parallel to I-81.

Scranton's provider of public transportation is the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS). COLTS buses provide extensive service within the city and more limited service that reaches in all directions to Carbondale, Daleville, Pittston, and Fleetville.

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport is located in nearby Avoca. The airport is serviced by American Airlines, Continental, Delta, United, and US Airways.

Martz Trailways and Greyhound Lines provide coach bus transportation from its downtown station to New York City, Philadelphia and other points in the northeast.

Private operators such as Posten Taxi and McCarthy Flowered Cabs service the Scranton area. They are hired by telephone through central dispatch and cannot be hailed on the street as in larger cities.

Railroads

Rail transportation plays an important part in the city's history and continues to have an impact today. The Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority is a bi-county creation of both Lackawanna County and Monroe County to oversee the use of common rail freight lines in Northeastern Pennsylvania, including one formerly owned by Conrail running from Scranton, through the Pocono Mountains towards New Jersey and the New York City market. One of its primary objectives is to re-establish rail passenger service via New Jersey Transit between Scranton and Hoboken, New Jersey by way of the New Jersey Cut-Off, with connecting service into Manhattan, New York.

The Canadian Pacific Railway (Delaware and Hudson division) operates the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western (DL&W;) line between Scranton and Binghamton, with frequent through trains often jointly operated with Norfolk Southern Railway. The Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad services the former DL&W; Keyser Valley branch in the city.

The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad, as designated operator of county-owned rail lines, oversees the former Delaware and Hudson line from Scranton north to Carbondale, the former DL&W; line east to the Delaware Water Gap and the former Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad third-rail interurban streetcar line south to Montage Mountain, Moosic. These are the lines hosting the seasonal passenger trains of both the Steamtown National Historic Site and the Electric City Trolley Museum and now under the jurisdiction of the new Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority.

Education

Primary and secondary education

The city's public schools are operated by the Scranton School District (SSD), which serves almost 10,000 students. The city has two public high schools for grades 9–12: Scranton High School just northwest of the downtown and West Scranton High School located on the West Side of the city. The district also has three public middle schools for grades 6–8: Northeast Intermediate, South Scranton Intermediate, and West Scranton Intermediate. In addition, SSD maintains 12 public elementary schools for grades K–5.

Scranton has two private high schools: Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school, and Yeshiva Bais Moshe, an Ultra Orthodox school. Holy Cross High School in Dunmore is a Catholic high school operated by the Diocese of Scranton that serves students in Scranton and the surrounding area. The diocese also operates several private elementary schools in the city. Protestant schools that serve the Scranton area include Abington Christian Academy, Canaan Christian Academy, The Geneva School, Summit Academy, and Triboro Christian Academy. The Pennsylvania Department of Education provides oversight for the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children. Penn Foster High School, a distance education high school, is headquartered in Scranton.

Scranton, West Scranton, Scranton Prep and Holy Cross all compete athletically in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna League which is a part of District 2 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.

Colleges and universities

The city hosts five colleges and universities: Lackawanna College, Marywood University, The University of Scranton, Johnson College, and The Commonwealth Medical College and one technical school, Fortis Institute. The Pennsylvania State University operates a Commonwealth Campus north of the city, in the borough of Dunmore, where ITT Tech is also located. Penn Foster Career School, a distance education vocational school, is headquartered in Scranton. Other colleges within of Scranton include Baptist Bible College & Seminary and Keystone College.

Notable people

Politicians

Joseph Biden – current Vice President of the United States, former U.S. Senator from Delaware

Frank Carlucci – United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 until 1989

Robert P. Casey – 42nd Governor of Pennsylvania

Robert P. Casey, Jr. – current senior U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania

Parents of Hillary Rodham Clinton – former First Lady, U.S. Senator from NY and current U.S. Secretary of State

Hermann Eilts – former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Bangladesh

Terence V. Powderly – head of the Knights of Labor from 1879 until 1893

Robert Reich – professor, author, and political commentator, United States Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 1997

William Scranton – 38th Governor of Pennsylvania and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

William Scranton III – served as the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987

Arts

Walter Bobbie – theatre director and choreographer

Alan Brown – filmmaker

Sonny Burke – big band leader

Mark Cohen – photographer

Bob Degen – jazz pianist

Dorothy Dietrich – stage magician and escapologist, owner of the Houdini Museum

Cy Endfield – screenwriter, film director, theatre director, author, magician and inventor

Jane Jacobs – writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay

Gloria Jean – singer and actress

Jean Kerr – author and playwright

Michael Patrick King – writer, director and producer for television shows and movies

Michael Kuchwara – theater critic, columnist and journalist

Gershon Legman – cultural critic and folklorist

Bradford Louryk – multi-award winning theater artist and actor

Judy McGrath – television executive, CEO of MTV Networks

W.S. Merwin – poet, 17th United States Poet Laureate

Jason Miller – actor and playwright

Jay Parini – writer and academic

Cynthia Rothrock – martial artist and actress specializing in martial arts films

Lizabeth Scott – actress and singer, widely known for her film noir roles

Melanie Smith – actress

Thomas L. Thomas – Welsh-American baritone concert singer

Ned Washington – lyricist

Lauren Weisberger – novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada

Motionless in White – gothic metalcore band

Sports

P.J. Carlesimo – professional basketball coach and television broadcaster

Nestor Chylak – Baseball Hall of Famer and American League umpire from 1954 to 1978

Joe Collins – Major League Baseball player

Jim Crowley – American football player and coach, one-fourth of the University of Notre Dame's legendary "Four Horsemen" backfield

Paul Foytack – Major League Baseball pitcher

Charlie Gelbert – Major League Baseball player

Cosmo Iacavazzi – college and American Football League player

Edgar Jones – college and professional football player

Ralph Lomma – popularized miniature golf in the mid 1950s

Matt McGloin – college football player

Gerry McNamara – basketball player

Mike Munchak – current head coach of the Tennessee Titans of the NFL, former college and National Football League player; member of NFL Hall of Fame

Brothers Jim and Steve O'Neill – Major League Baseball players

Jackie Paterson – Scottish boxer

Parents of NFL coach Sean Payton

Tim Ruddy – college and National Football League player

Marc Spindler – college and National Football League player

Brian Stann – Mixed martial artist currently fighting in the UFC, former WEC Light Heavyweight MMA champion

John A. Walsh – executive vice president and executive editor of ESPN Inc.

Other notable people who lived in Scranton

Bishop Joseph Bambera – 10th and current Bishop of Scranton

Mamie Cadden – Irish midwife and backstreet abortionist

Lisa Caputo – current Executive VP, Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs for Citigroup

Howard Gardner – developmental psychologist and professor

Alex Grass – businessman and lawyer who founded Rite Aid

Jeffrey Bruce Klein – investigative journalist who co-founded Mother Jones (magazine) in 1976

Gino J. Merli – American soldier, and recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II

Bishop Robert C. Morlino – 4th and current Bishop of Madison

Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor – 11th bishop (8th archbishop) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, 7th Bishop of Scranton

Bill O'Reilly – television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator

Karen Ann Quinlan – important person in the history of the right to die controversy

Hugh Ellsworth Rodham – father of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

B.F. Skinner – behaviorist, author, inventor, social philosopher, and poet

Mel Ziegler – cofounded with his wife two companies, The Republic of Tea and Banana Republic

Sister cities

Scranton has three official sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: – Ballina, Co. Mayo, Republic of Ireland – Balakovo, Russia – Trnava, Slovakia

See also

Polish Cathedral style

Scranton Army Ammunition Plant

References

External links

City of Scranton

Albright Memorial Library

Lackawanna Historical Society

Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce

Rediscover Scranton

Scranton Tomorrow

from Wikitravel

The Commonwealth Medical College

Category:Cities in Pennsylvania Category:County seats in Pennsylvania Category:Municipalities of the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania Category:Populated places established in 1778 Category:Populated places in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania