1892 Map of Honesdale

About this map

Honesdale anchors this 1890s landscape at a time when the region served as a critical corridor for the transport of anthracite coal. The infrastructure of the coal industry is prominently displayed through the path of the Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad, which cuts through Waymart toward the Delaware River valley. To the west, the New York Ontario and Western Railroad follows the Lackawanna River drainage through Forest City, illustrating the competing rail interests that defined Wayne and Susquehanna counties at the end of the nineteenth century.