The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-06-04

A curious map was displayed In the
office of the city engineer yesterday. 1t
bears the inscription "Thc Territory of
Scranton Prior to September, $780,
despite the fact that the word "Scran-
ton" appears nowhere else upon it.
Probably the relic hasn't seen the light
of day more than a dozen times in the
last fifteen or twenty years unless for
the purpose of examination by some
curio cranks. It wouldn't have been
brought out yesterday only for the fact
that an heir of the late Joseph Church
was making claim To land alongside
North Main avenue and it was neces-
sary to determine what the original
width of that thoroughfare was
The map shows all the territory
within a mile north of Providence
CORNERS" line about the same dis
tance west of the Back Road" an
other line about a mile and a half be-
low the junction of Roaring Brook
and the Lackawanna river, and an
eastern line about a mile east of Roar
ing Brook Imagine all the Dunmore
territory missing from one corner and
Bellevue and Round Woods missing
from the other corner and you have a
mind picture of the map.
O-NlIl Cf'N IN 1NOAlDS'
Only seven roads are shown in all
that big eXpanse of territory. Those
parallelling the river are tha Back
Road" the Main Road" (Main ave-
nue. and another not named but which
might be Cedar avenue running into an
imaginary road through Court House
square and thence to Capousa avenue.
Sanderson avenue and on to near the
"a nf ha ri a ht nri,-
ing park and northward. only two
thorouEhfares connect the Back
Road" with the territory where the
cty's business district now lies. In
fact, these are the only two roads run
ming east and west south of Providence
and only one runs east and west in
that section. The latter road leads
from Dunmorc corners" to Provi-
denCe corners" and on up LcggCtt's
creek. Add a road leading from what
might now be the LaCkawana Iron and
Steel company store to Dunmorc and
you have all the roads in this vicinity
at that time, excepting a short cross
road above the Driving park and reach
ing from North Main avenue to the
road on the East side of the river.
"Slocum Hollow" as it is mentioned
on the map. shows only six buildings.
Two are designated mill" two "Slo-
cum" one Mott" and one school
house" on the road toward Dunmore
are indicated the houses of Glitch
. cock" the brick house now owned by
w. w. Watsom, Fine Cory"
"Hornbakcr" and "Swartz."
Hyde Park corners" Back Road"
and Providence corners" appear to be
thickly settled communities which
throw little "SloCum Hollow" complete
ly in the background. In Hyde Park
are the names: Corbin, w. Mcrrifield,
Merrincld, Hutbcl (hoteD, Orr. Decker,
Custer Knapp, Washburn, Daily,
Koermans (2), Green hoteD. Hotchkiss,
Atherton, Engler, J. Kinckerbacker
and Griffin.
Providence contains these names:
Kinney, Williams, Gardner, Griffin,
Drake, Vaughan, Jeffries, Lackey,
Grice, Chase, Bloom hoteD, Cottrell,
Newton, Corson, Potter Ira Tripp
North of what is now Pine Brook
the four houses of Lutz, Carey, How
ard and Fraster are grouped togethcron
the road running north from Slocum
Hollow. They are then only houses
between Slocum Hollow and a point
near the road between Dunmore and
PROVIDENCE.
On the "Main Road" (Main aVCnuc)
the following houses appear in the
order named going north on the west
side of the road from Hyde Park to
Providence: Winton, Silkman, Tripp,
Tripp, Griffin, Griffin, DIR. Robinson,
Van Storch, Stewart.
Between Hyde Park and "Back
Road on the two thoroughfares run
ming through TO SlOcum Hollow are
KincherbaCker, Mott, Winton, Boon,
Atwill, Taylor, Pepper ON the Back
Road" going north are Luckcy, Dodge,
Allis, Washburn, Gray. Briggs 90,
Moat, S. Church, Townsend, Brown,
Lockwood, Kilmer and Wheeler.
North of Providence each side Of the
river are Spencer, Hutchins, McDon-
aid, Stevens (8, Griffin (2), Moore,
Meads, Wedeman, Besecker, Swartz,
White, Miller.
A comparatively small part Of the
territory shown in the map is cleared
land. Woods are everywhere cXcept-
ing near the groups Of houses for
some distance east and west Of the
"Main Road north of Providence.
and east of the river opposite Provi-
dence.