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Thursday, November 27, 2008. Main street and Market street extended through the Public Square and thus divided the Square into four parts. The streets around the four sides of the Square were taken up mainly by business buildings, but to some extent by residences. These buildings were generally of frame, two stories high, and this was true of the great majority of the buildings in the town, brick buildings being an exception.
Saturday, December 13, 2008. The Darken home was located where later was the Wilkes-Barre Business College. In 1813 it was owned and occupied by Judge John B. Gigson, who in 1816 was elected to the Supreme Court bench, where he served 37 years. Farther toward Main street was the Presbyterian Church Parsonage, occupied in 1829 by Rev. Gildersleeve, and in 1830 by Rev.
Saturday, December 13, 2008. Between Franklin and Main streets were two or three small houses. One was occupied by a tailor named Shivets.
Saturday, December 13, 2008.
Saturday, February 7, 2009. Passing around the corner of the Square and West Market Street we come to the residence of Joseph Wright, Esq. , a good frame building, two stories high, with a small office on the corner. On the south side of West Market street lived Andrew Beamont, who kept the Postoffice here. Then was the home of Mr.
Saturday, December 13, 2008. There were no homes between South Main and Washington streets. This area was mainly cultivated farm land.