1893 Map of Scranton

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Scranton is the industrial and urban heart of this Lackawanna County survey, appearing as a dense grid of streets along the Lackawanna River. The late-19th-century landscape is defined by an intricate network of competing rail lines, including the Delaware Lackawanna and Western and the Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad, which carried the region's anthracite coal. Beyond the city center, satellite settlements like Hyde Park, Providence, and Dunmore are clearly established, while the valley floor is densely packed with boroughs such as Olyphant and Dickson City. To the south and east, the terrain rises sharply into the Moosic Mountains, where the character changes from industrial corridors to steep ridges and water bodies like Moosic Lake and the Elmhurst Reservoir. Researchers will find a region at its industrial peak, from the coal patches along the river to the rural crossroads of Daleville and Moscow.