Letter from Wilkes-Barre - July 23, 1849. Friday, April 3, 2009. Letter from Wilkesbarre - July 23, 1849. On Friday and Saturday last we received a few favors, in the way of showers, accompanied with thunder and lighting, the first of the season, so that now humanity, as well as herb and flower, vegetates again with freedom and comfort.

Sunday, March 1, 2009. Memorandum of a Stranger in Luzerne. What! Two men running horses! 8212; a new way of dismounting.

David Laraway - An Old Stage Driver. Sunday, March 29, 2009. That was before there was a house in Scranton and at that time Wilkes-Barre was a village of less than a thousand Inhabitants. There were no railroads here then, and goods were drawn in wagons from Philadelphia to Wilkes-Barre to supply the people of this section. House now stands, kept by Milton Courtright.

Visit by Young Philadelphian - 1840. Friday, March 13, 2009. A VISIT TO WILKES-BARRE BY A YOUNG PHILADELPHIAN IN THE YEAR 1840. Friday, 7th August, 1840. To add to the inconveniences of the journey, it was very damp and cold, so cold that when we reached Nanticoke I got off the coach and went into the house, where there was a fire burning, which felt as comfortable as ever it did in the midst of winter. I perceived that the pews were very inconveniently arranged for a stranger, as yo.

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