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Thursday, November 27, 2008.
Saturday, February 7, 2009. Above Northampton came the Presbyterian Church, built 1830, which now houses the Osterhaut Free Library. Then came the Miner house, where now the Westmoreland Club now stands. Next was Collins and Jewett. Next to him lived Judge Garrick Mallery, later the site of the Wilkes-Barre Institute.
Saturday, December 13, 2008.
Saturday, December 13, 2008.
Sunday, December 7, 2008. Captain Zebulon Butler lived on the southeast corner of Northampton and River streets, directly in front of the old Ferry landing. Here Colonel Ethan Allen was entertained in 1786. In this house Luzerne County was organized, its courts established, and its officials inducted into office by Colonel Timothy Pickering. Lord Butler, son of Zebulon appointed the first Postmaster of Wilkes-Barre in 1794, kept the office here. Then came the house built in 1803 by .
Saturday, December 13, 2008. The house and store of Mathias Hollenbach was on the west side of South Main street between Northampton and South streets. On the east side of South Main street between Northampton and South streets was the old Ross log house. It was built by Colonel Timothy Pickering about 1787, who sold it to General William Ross in 1796, who occupied it for 46 years. A little to the north was the old Ross log house. Next was Polly Pells;.