
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
Official Website
The county was created on August 13, 1878, following decades of trying to gain its independence from Luzerne County. (The courts were organized in October 1878.) It is Pennsylvania's last county to be created, and the only one created after the Civil War. It is named for the Lackawanna River.
Adjacent Counties
Cities & Boroughs
- Archbald
- Blakely
- Carbondale
- Clarks Green
- Clarks Summit
- Dalton
- Dickson City
- Dunmore
- Jermyn
- Jessup
- Mayfield
- Moosic
- Moscow
- Old Forge
- Olyphant
- Scranton (County Seat)
- Taylor
- Throop
- Vandling
Other Townships & Communities: Benton, Big Bass Lake (part), Chinchilla, Clifton, Covington, Daleville, Eagle Lake, Elmhurst, Fell, Glenburn, Greenfield, Jefferson, La Plume, Madison, Milwaukee, Minooka, Mount Cobb, Newton, North Abingdon, Ransom, Scott, Simpson, South Abingdon, Spring Brook, Thornhurst, Waverly, West Abingdon and Winton
Cemeteries
Links
National Register of Historic Places
