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Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Montrose
Year Organized: 1810
Square Miles: 823 |
Court House: P.O. Box 218
County Courthouse
Montrose, PA 18801-0218
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for the Susquehanna River.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on February 21, 1810, from
part of Luzerne County and named for the Susquehanna River. It remained attached
to Luzerne County until 1812. Montrose, the county seat was laid out in 1812 and
incorporated as a borough on March 19, 1824. Its name is a combination of "mont,"
the French word for "mountain" and Rose, for Dr. L R. Rose, a prominent citizen.
In 1787 entrepreneur John Nicholson sent some settlers to the site of Brooklyn,
although a Hessian deserter may have been the very first in the area.
Pennsylvania purchased the land from Indians at Fort Stanwix in 1784, and
Connecticut formally yielded its claim in 1786 (although individual Connecticut
settlers eventually re-purchased their land from Pennsylvania). Maple sugar was
the first major product; lumbering followed. Woodworking factories developed,
producing furniture, artistic scrolls and designs, and toys. A fire in Montrose
in 1886 destroyed a large toy factory. Tanning was important while the stands of
hemlock survived. Valuable anthracite was discovered at Forest City in 1871.
Good railroad connections with Lake Erie and New York did much for the economy.
Once Susquehanna had a superior dairy production that was marketed to urban
areas by railroads. Flagstone is profitable to mine. Bendix Corporation came to
Montrose in 1951, and its flight systems division now employs one thousand in
South Montrose. Farms cover 36 percent of the county land, and Susquehanna has
the twelfth largest number of cows among the sixty-seven counties and the
twelfth highest figure for cash receipts from dairy products. It is also a major
producer of hay.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Apolacon |
township |
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- Ararat |
township |
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- Bridgewater |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Brooklyn |
township |
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- Choconut |
township |
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- Clifford |
township |
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- Dimock |
township |
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- Forest City |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Forest Lake |
township |
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- Friendsville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Gibson |
township |
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- Great Bend |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hallstead |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Harford |
township |
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- Herrick |
township |
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- Hop Bottom |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Jackson |
township |
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- Kingsley |
township |
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- Lanesboro |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lathrop |
township |
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- Lenox |
township |
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- Little Meadows |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Montrose
(County Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- New Milford |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Nicholson |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Springville |
township |
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- Susquehanna |
township |
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- Susquehanna Depot |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Thompson |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Union Dale |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Vandling |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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