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Gertrude Hawk

Gertrude Hawk

March 3, 2023 · by laguzda · in Business, Northeast Pennsylvania, Scranton, Uncategorized, Visionary, Women

The Sweet Success of a Visionary Woman Northeast Pennsylvania is home to several national brand products. Planters Peanuts was founded by Amedeo Obici and Mario Peruzzi in 1906 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. D.G. Yuengling & Son is a brewery that is…

Cornelia Elizabeth Pinchot

Cornelia Elizabeth Pinchot

February 1, 2023 · by laguzda · in Uncategorized

Known as Leila to her friends, Ms. Pinchot was an outspoken activist, reformer and suffragist. Born in 1881 in Newport, Rhode Island, to a wealthy and politically connected family. In 1914 she married Gifford Pinchot, father of the American Conservation…

Sarah Mary Benjamin

Sarah Mary Benjamin

January 1, 2023 · by laguzda · in Uncategorized

Driving along PA371, just west of Pleasant Mount, nestled between the Pocono and Endless Mountains, is a historical marker in honor of Sarah Mary Benjamin. Sarah Mathews was born in the mid-1750s in Connecticut. Her family had moved from the…

Anthracite Coal Mines of Northeast Pennsylvania

Anthracite Coal Mines of Northeast Pennsylvania

January 3, 2015 · by laguzda · in History, Pocono Mountains, Scranton, Tow Path

                  With the chill of winter settling in our bones, there are few ways to keep our tootsies toasty. One of those is coal. Coal deposits are scattered around the world, but…

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