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2020 Membership in Forest City Area Historical Society Now Available
The Forest City Area Historical Society Museum
will be open
Sat. Oct. 24th & 31st
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
As per the PA Gov. Wolf's order all people must wear masks and social distancing among groups while out in public.
The Museum is located at the corner of Main & Dundaff Streets in Forest City.
Anyone seeking genealogical information can contact Curator Barb Klobucar at fagan@nep.net (please put FCAHS in subject line).
will be open
Sat. Oct. 24th & 31st
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
As per the PA Gov. Wolf's order all people must wear masks and social distancing among groups while out in public.
The Museum is located at the corner of Main & Dundaff Streets in Forest City.
Anyone seeking genealogical information can contact Curator Barb Klobucar at fagan@nep.net (please put FCAHS in subject line).
While at the Forest City Area Historical Society Museum, view the many historical displays of the communities of the Forest City Regional Area. For contacts: 570-785-3800.
The FCAHS will meet Sunday Nov 8, 2020 at 6:00 PM at the Museum.
Please wear masks and keep social distance.
The Forest City Area Historical Society Museum,
is located at the corner of Main & Dundaff Streets in Forest City.
Please wear masks and keep social distance.
The Forest City Area Historical Society Museum,
is located at the corner of Main & Dundaff Streets in Forest City.
The former Methodist Church in Forest City was donated to the FCAHS. We thank the good people of the church, the Methodist Conference and also the members and public who have continued to donate for the upkeep of the building. Thank you so much. We treasure this wonderful gift.
Welcome to the most wonderful place in Pennsylvania
“Cut in the dark woods where never a shimmer of golden sun shines through the trees and the surface was covered with vegetation in wild luxuriance. There were monster hemlock trees, some of them of beautiful symmetry lifting their magnificent proportions to an altitude of nearly one hundred feet. Others were bent toward each other having their long limbs locked across the narrow road as if embracing each other and whispering secrets.”
This was William Pentecost’s 1864 romantic description of the area where three counties meet in the mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The Forest City area consists of Forest City, Vandling, Browndale and Richmondale. These four communities straddle three counties, Susquehanna, Lackawanna and Wayne in northeast PA.
This was William Pentecost’s 1864 romantic description of the area where three counties meet in the mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The Forest City area consists of Forest City, Vandling, Browndale and Richmondale. These four communities straddle three counties, Susquehanna, Lackawanna and Wayne in northeast PA.
Lumber was the first industry in the area.
The area was first settled in 1864 when William Pentecost opened a lumber mill down by the Lackawanna River. The new town of Forest Mills had 50 people in 1865. Between 1866 and 1871 the D&H Canal Company built a railroad spur in Forest Mills.
Though coal had been discovered by Pentecost in 1864, it was not until coal was found by the D&H in 1871 that coal mining became the new industry for the area.
Though coal had been discovered by Pentecost in 1864, it was not until coal was found by the D&H in 1871 that coal mining became the new industry for the area.
Forest City and Browndale as it was in 1937
The FCAHS is always in the process of expanding our Website. Please come back often.
Website Director: Barb Klobucar
e-mail: fagan@nep.net
When e-mailing me, please put FCAHS in the subject line so that I know it is real mail.
I try not to make mistakes before publishing this website, but if you find a mistake, broken links, please let me know.
e-mail: fagan@nep.net
When e-mailing me, please put FCAHS in the subject line so that I know it is real mail.
I try not to make mistakes before publishing this website, but if you find a mistake, broken links, please let me know.