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As a metropolitan area, it is known as the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, after its principal cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. With a population of 567,559 as of the 2020 United States census , it is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania , after the Delaware Valley , Greater Pittsburgh , the Lehigh Valley , and the ...
Wilkes-Barre (/ ˈ w ɪ l k s b ɛər i / 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.
Wyoming is a borough in the Greater Pittston area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 5 miles (8 km) north of Wilkes-Barre , along the Susquehanna River . [ 4 ] The population was 3,097 as of the 2020 census.
This led Arnold Colt, a Luzerne County clerk, to construct a turnpike directly connecting the Wyoming and Lehigh Valleys on Sullivan's Trail. [8] Colt then obtained a charter to incorporate the Easton and Wilkes-Barre Turnpike on February 11, 1803. [9] The first 46 miles (74 km) of the turnpike from Wilkes-Barre to Wind Gap were finished by 1807.
The Susquehanna River reached a record high of 42.6 feet (13.0 meters) in Wilkes-Barre. The river topped the 40.9-foot (12.5-meter) level in flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972. However, unlike 1972, the levee system in Wilkes-Barre and several other communities held. Those municipalities without a levee system witnessed severe flooding.
These included large cliffs near Wilkes-Barre. [1] The Wyoming Division Canal was sold by the state to a private company, the North Branch Canal Company in April 1858. In 1865, the canal was damaged in a flood, but was rebuilt. [2] The Wyoming Canal closed in 1882. [4] It was succeeded in functionality by the Lehigh Valley Railroad. [3]
Oct. 28—Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley Traction Company's trolley car No. 220 left Public Square at 2:50 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1908, on its way to Luzerne Borough with stops along Wyoming Avenue in ...
The Pennamite–Yankee Wars or Yankee–Pennamite Wars were a series of conflicts consisting of the First Pennamite War (1769–1770), the Second Pennamite War (1774), and the Third Pennamite War (1784), in which settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania (Pennamites) disputed for control of the Wyoming Valley along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River.