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1893 Map of Pittston

Name: 1893 Topographic Map of Pittston
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1933
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1933

About this map

The Susquehanna River carves a deep valley through this Pennsylvania landscape, serving as the industrial and transportation corridor for the Wyoming Valley. In the late nineteenth century, the river is paralleled by an intensive network of competing rail lines, including the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and the Bloomsburg Division Central Railroad of New Jersey. These tracks connect a dense series of coal-country settlements from Pittston and West Pittston down through Forty Fort and Kingston.

Away from the industrial riverbank, the terrain rises sharply toward Miller Mt and Bald Mt, where the character of the land shifts to smaller hamlets like Center Moreland and Newton Center. Water features like Browns Pond and Cummings Pond dot the uplands, while the Harvey Lake Branch Lehigh Valley Railroad winds through the hills toward Dallas. The map captures a moment when heavy industry and river geography dictated the placement of every major borough and rail junction.