When was the first...?
1819
Market Street Bridge opens
1828
Canal boat
1833
Country steam engine
1843
Passenger train arrives in Wilkes-Barre
1850’s
Telegraph in Wilkes-Barre to Tamaqua
1856
Wilkes-Barre gas company formed
Locomotive drawing passenger cars enters Kingston on D, L & W RR
Wyoming Canal opens to New York
1866
Horse car line in Wyoming Valley built Wilkes-Barre to Kingston
Cobblestone street in Wilkes-Barre
1877
Telephone company in Wilkes-Barre
1878
Electric lights
1884
Kirby and Woolworth store opens in Wilkes-Barre
1886
Wilkes-Barre Lace Manufacturing Company opens; largest in world
Wilkes-Barre has steam heat
1890
Known tornado
1911
(possibly) Aerial motion picture taken in the nation by Lyman Howe
1921
Taxes were placed on women
1925
GAR high school completed
1938
PA governor from Plymouth elected
1940
19 men called for draft for World War II
1944
Daniel Flood is elected to Congress
1953
Television station
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