nature and man's energies have happily joined hands here and made Luzerne county one of the highly favored spots of earth. Harvey's Lake is 1,000 feet above the level of the Susquehanna, situated in Lake township, twelve miles northwest of Wilkes Barre. It is an immense spring of pure cold water, with a beautiful clean sand and gravel bottom, and varies in depth from five to 200 feet. It was first discovered by Benjamin Harvey, who settled upon its outlet prior to the Revolutionary war. It was surveyed in 1794, when covered with ice, by Christopher Hurlbert, who found it extended over an area of 1,285 acres, a little more than two square miles. It is the largest body of fresh water in Pennsylvania, and furnishes an abundant supply of fish, which, owing to the purity of the water, are of superior quality. The first canoe ever launched upon the bosom of this lake, by a white man, was made in Wyoming valley, in 1800, by Andrew Bennett. It was shod with hickory saplings, and was drawn over the mountain by horses, and used in fishing and hunting. Beaver Lake, in Buck township is one mile in length and a half mile in breadth. It is the source of Pond Creek, which flows into the Lehigh. Triangle Pond, in Wright township, has an area of 150 acres, and is one of the sources of the Little Wapwallopen Creek. Long and Round Ponds, in Slocum township, are also sources of the Little Wapwallopen, and abound in fish. The former is about a mile long by a half mile wide; the latter is smaller. Their depth is from twenty-five to fifty feet. Three Cornered Pond, in Lehman township, is a handsome body of clear water, and constitutes one of the sources of Hunlock creek. North and South Ponds, in Ross townships, the former covering 250 acres, and the latter about 150. discharge their waters through Hunlock creek. Mud Pond, in Fairmount township, empties into the Huntington creek, which also receives the waters of Long pond, in Sullivan county, near the Luzerne county line. At this latter point, on the summit of the North mountain, is 2,636 feet above the level of the sea. In 1777, when this was Westmoreland county, Conn., and its wide territory included what is now Luzerne, Wyoming, Susquehanna, Bradford, and a portion of Wayne county, there were, all told. 1,922 souls. Sixteen years after that, 1790, in the same territory, except the part of Wayne county above, there was a population of 4,904; or one to each square mile. In 1800 there were 12,838, showing an average annual increase of 793. In 1810 there were 18.109, a slight average decrease. In 1820, with Bradford and Susquehanna counties taken off, there were 20,027 inhabitants, and in 1830, 27,304; in 1840, 44.006; in 1850 (Wyoming taken off) the population of Luzerne county was 56,072. [At that time Wyoming county had 10,653 people.] The following table exhibits the classified population of Luzerne for the years 1850 and 1860: The following table exhibits the classified population of Luzerne for the years 1850 and 1860:" 1850. 1860. White males 29,465 46,613 Females 26,234 43,327 Colored persons 373 450 Families 9,672 15.065 Dwellings 9,587 14.920 Births 1,976 2,956 Deaths 383 878 Married 597 925 Persons who could not read and write 2,228 3,981 Persons over one hundred years 3 2 Between ninety and one hundred 6 8 Blind ." 10 14 Deaf and dumb 8 12 Insane 12 16 Number of foreigners 12,567 23,486 183C, foreigners, 785. The official figures for the census years 1880 and 1890 show the following in detail: Luzerne county. Buck township 1890 1880 Boss township 1,102 1,063 Salem township 1,303 1,448 Shickshinny borough 1,448 1,058 Slocuni township 409 377 Sugar Loaf township 1,854 1,390 Sugar Notch borough 2,586 1,582 Union township 874 920 West Hazleton borough 931 191 West Pittston borough 3,906 2,544 White Haven borough 1,634 1,408 Wilkes-Barre city 37,718 23,339 Wilkes-Barre township 2,917 2,445 Wright township 152 880 Wyoming borough 1,794 1,147 Yatesville borough 414 415 Going over the detailed official reports of the population of the divisions of the county, it is striking, even as early as 1860, how much more rapidly the coal-bearing sections increased over the other portions of the county. The vast coal interests at that time were only fairly begun to develop. Since then the rapid increase of population, still centering in the vicinity of the mines, has kept pace with the enormous growth of the coal output, and yet there is no great city in the county. Indeed until the last few months Wilkes-Barre was the only organized city in Luzerne county, and that contained less than 40,000 of the 201,000 inhabitants of the county. Hazleton is just now made a legal city, with only a population of about 12,000. Therefore, it is plain that the increase of population here, the past century, from a little more than 4,000 to more than 200,000, with the territory reduced by the counties of Wyoming and Lackawanna recently taken off, in addition to Bradford and Susquehanna, that were extracted in the early part of the century, shows a growth of rural population unequaled in any county in the United States. POSTOFFICES IN LUZERNE COUNTY. Poatoffiees. Townahipt. Postoffices. Townships. Alden Station Newport Glen Lyon Newport Alderson Forty Fort Kingston Ashley Hanover Freeland Foster Askam Hanover Gowen Black Creek Avoca Avoca Borough Grand Tunnel Plymouth Beach Haven Salem Gregory Hunlock Bear Creek Bear Creek Harding Exeter Bell Bend Salem Hardpau Huntington Bloomingdale Boss Harleigh Hazle Briggsville Nescopeck Harveyville Huntington Cambra Huntington Hazle Brook Foster Carverton Kingston Hazleton Hazle Cease's Mills Jackson Hobbie Hollenback Chauncey Plymouth Hudson Clarkes View Hunlock Creek Hunlock Conynghani Sugarloaf Huntington Mills Huntington Dallas ^Dallas Huutsville Jackson Dorrance Dorrance Idetown Lehman Dorranceton Kingston Inkernian lenkins Drifton Hazle Irish Lane Ross Drums Butler Jeansville Hazle Dupont Pittston Jeddo Hazle Duryea Marcy Ketcham Franklin Ebervale Hazle Kingston Kingston Eckley Foster Koousville Union Edwardsdale Kingston Kunkle Dallas Exeter Exeter Kyttle Fairmount Fade's Creek Lake Laffl in Pittston Fairmount Springs Fairmount Lake (at Harvey's Lake) Lehman LOCALITIES WHOSE PO8TOFFI0E DIFFERS FROM THE NAMES BY WHICH THEY ARE GENERALLY Postofflees. Townships. Laketon Lehman Larksville (formerly Blindton) Plymouth Lattimer Mines Hazle Lehman Lehman Loyalville Lake Luzerne Luzerne Borough Maple Run Fairmount Meeker Milnesville Hazle Miners' Mills Plains Moosehead Denison Mountain Grove Black Creek Mountain Top Wright Muhlenburg Union Nanticoke Hanover Nescopeck Nescopeck New Columbus Huntington Oliver's Mills (Laurel Run Borough) Orange Franklin Outlet Lake Parsons Plains Peely (Warrior Run) Hanover Pike's Creek Lake Pittston Pittston Plains Plains Plainsville, L. V. R. B. Station Plains Plymouth Plymouth Pond Hill Port Blanchard Jenkins Prichard Hunlock Red Rock Fairmount Register Huntington Reyburn Union Postoffices. Townships. Rhone Nanticoke Borough Ripple Bittenhouse Fairmount Rock Glen Black Creek Ruggles Lake Sandy Run Foster Shavertown Shickshinny Salem and Union Silkworth Lehman Slocum Slocum Stockton llazle Stoddartsville Buck Sugarloaf Butler Sugar Notch Sugar Notch Sweet Valley Boss Sevbertsville Sugarloaf Tank Black Creek Town Hill Huntington Town Line Union Trucksville Kingston Turnback Black Creek Upper Lehigh Foster Wanamie Newport Wapwallopen Conynghan Waterton Huntington Weintz West Hazleton Hazle West Nanticoke Plymouth Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre White Haven Foster Wyoming Wyoming Borough Yatesville Jenkins Zehner Foster KNOWN. Localities. Postoffice. Alberts Ashley Allentown Lehman Ashberton Hazleton Avoudale Grand Tunnel Baltimore Mines Parsons Barn Hill Grand Tunnel Beach Grove Belbend Bear Creek Junction Bear Creek Bear Hollow Outlet Beaumont Stoddardsville Beaver Run Ruggles Bennets Luzerne Berger's Moosehead Black Creek Rock Glen Black Ridge Conyngham P. O. Bowman's Hill Wilkes-Barre Bradersville White Haven Bridge No. 28 Moosehead Brown's Colliery Pittston Brown's Corners Huntsville Browntown Yatesville Bryar Hill Port Blanchard Buck Mountain Station Weatherly Buttonwood Askam Butzbaugh's Landing Nanticoke Ceasetown Nanticoke Charlestown Avoca Church Hill Nanticoke Localities. Postoffice. Coalville Ashley Columbus New Columbus Conyngham Station Conyngham Cora's Mills Harding Council Ridge Eckley Coxton Pittston Cramer's Hook Sweet Valley Cranberry Hazleton Crystal Ridge Hazleton Daken Huntsville Davis Mills Harding Derrenger Gowcn Diamond Addition Hazleton Drif'ton Junction White Haven Duck Pond Wilkes-Barre Dundee Nanticoke East Sugar Lake Eckley Empire Wilkes-Barre Espy Bun Peely Everhart Coal Company Pittston Fairview Mountain Top Falling Springs Harding Falls Run Rock Glenn Falls Run City Rock Glenn Fern Glen Gowen Forest Castle Harding Forestdale Rittenhouse Foundry Jeddo Localities. Po&toMce. Foundry ville Eckley Franklin Pittstou Freehold Freeland Freuchtown Jeansville Frogtown Pittstou Gardner's Switch Parsons Georgetown Wilkes-Barre Gradsey Pond Sweet Valley Great Rock Red Roc k Greenridge Moosic Hanover Nanticoke Hardwicksburg Ashley Harris Hill Trucksville Hartzille Slocum Harwood Hazleton Harvey's Creek Hotel West Nanticoke Harvey's Lake Lake Hazleton Mines Hazleton Headley's Camp Ground Harvey ville Headley's Grove Harvey ville Head of Plains Nescopeck Heberton Upper Lehigh Heimville Black Ridge Hellertown Belbend Hendricksburg Ashley Henrico Rittenhouse Hick's Ferry Belbend Highland Jeddo Hoffenback Wilkes-Barre Hollywood Minersville Honey Pot Nanticoke Hornsville Jeddo Hublersville Huntington Mills Hughestown Pittstou Humbolt Hazleton Huntington Town Hill Ice Cave Trucksville Indian Springs Stockton Iona Shicksh inny Iron Dale Port Blanchard Jackson Huntsville Jenkins Port Blanchard Jersey Mills Plymouth Jerusalem White Haven Johnson's Mill Nescopeck Johnsonville Nescopeck Kocher's Notch Sandy Run Koonsville Harveyville L. & B. Junction Pittston Lake House Lake Lattimore Hazleton Laurel Hill Hazleton Laurel Run Oliver's Mills Lockwood Lake Moosehead Lockout White Haven Lumber Yard Stockton Lutsoy Slocum Maltby Wyoming Maple Island White Haven Marr Avoca Middleburg White Haven Mill Creek Hudson Mill Hollow Luzerne Milltown Luzerne Mine No. 2 Eckley Mine No. 3 Eckley Mocanaqua Shickshinny Localities. Post„jjice. Moretowu Sweet Valley Morrison White Haven Mountain Grove Camp Mountain Grove Mountain House Milnesville Mountain House Briggsville Mount Pleasant Wilkes-Barre Mount Pleasant Colliery ) Hazleton Changed to Harwood.... JHazleton Mount Zion Harding Nescopeck Gap Mountain Grove Nescopeck Junction White Haven Nescopeck Station Moosehead Nescopeck Tunnel Moosehead New London Gowen Newport Wanamie Newtown Wilkes-Barre New Troy Wyoming North Pond Sweet Valley Oakdale Jeddo Oley Valley Eckley Patterson Grove Harveyville Pencadore Wilkes-Barre Penobscot Mountain Top Pike's Peak Nanticoke Pincherville Orange Pine Ridge Shaft Miner's Mills Pittsburg Pittston Pleasant Hill Sweet Valley Pleasant Valley Avoca Plumbtown Sugar Notch Pond Creek Sandy Run Pond Creek Colliery Eckley Port Bowkley Plaiusville Port Griffith Port Blanchard Port Jenkins White Haven Powder Mills Freeland Prospect House Willkes-Barre Ritta Station Mountain Top Sandy Valley Eckley Sax Wilkes-Barre Scale Siding Upper Lehigh Scale Siding Eckley Schloyer's Store Nescopeck Schloyerville Nescopeck Scotch Hill Pittston Sebastpol .Pittston Sewellsville Gowen Shoemaker's Mills Wyoming Shorer Town Dallas Siding No. 7 Slocum Slocum .Mountain Top Sloyersville Wilkes-Barre Sly kersville Audenried Solomon's Gap Mountain Top South Heberton Freeland South Pond Sweet Vnlley Stanton Hill Wilkps-Barre Stark's Colliery Pittston Stark's Patch Avoca Sturmerville Pittston Summit Moosehead Summit Siding Moosehead Tannery Station Lehigh Tannery Thomas' Mill Spring Brook Tomhicken Sugar Loaf Tunnel Hill Moosehead Tyler Harveyville |