Peckville, Pennsylvania
Peckvilleis a village inLackawanna County,Pennsylvania,United States,roughly 8 miles (13 km) northwest ofScranton.The governing borough of Peckville isBlakely.[1]
Peckville was named for Samuel Peck, who moved to northeastern Pennsylvania from Massachusetts in 1831, and built a saw and grist mill at the site of the current village. His son John D. Peck was a bank president in Peckville. In the early 1900s, Peckville had a weekly newspaper,The Peckville Journal,a public school, and the Peckville National Bank.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania.1911. pp. 972–975.
- ^Hitchcock, Frederick Lyman (1914).History of Scranton and Its People.Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 349–351, 418–420.
- ^Murphy, Thomas F. (1928).Jubilee History: Commemorative of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Creation of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania...Historical Publishing Company. p. 464.
See also
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