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Friday, November 28, 2008. Washington street, with very few buildings along it and ending up at South street, was grass grown - a wagon track marking the traveled portion of the highway. Washington street was principally orchards and only a few buildings.
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;.
Saturday, December 13, 2008. From Public Square to Northampton, there only one house, the tavern. Ziba Smith lived and had a store on the corner of the South Main street and Public Square;.
Saturday, February 7, 2009. On the west corner of North Main and the Square was a large red house occupied by Thomas Duane as a tavern and store;. Next was a frame two story building owned by Stephen Tuttle. Next to the tavern was the store of Ziba Bennett;. Then the home of George Dennison;.