Scranton,

Scranton, the fourth city of Pennsylvania, and capital of Lackawanna county, is on the Lackawanna River, 144 miles by rail N.W. of New York. It lies in an important anthracite basin, and is a busy railway centre. Its trade in coal and mining supplies is enormous; and it has car and carriage factories, and great iron and steel manufactories, turning out locomotives, boilers, machinery, stoves, and edge-tools. Scranton is well built, its streets wide, with many handsome buildings, including among its scores of churches a cathedral. It was founded in 1840, and became a city in 1856. Pop. (1860) 9223; (1880) 45,850; (1890) 75,215.