Monday, January 19, 2009. Where the houses were situated and who occupied them in the years 1802 - 1806, written from memory by James A. Gordon and published in Record of the Times, Dec 23, 1873. in 1794, by James A. Gordon, a New York carpenter, and occupied from 1802 to 1811 or 12 by Andrew Vogel, hatter. Turning up we come to the residence of Joseph Backenstow, a fashionable tailor from Sunbury.

Sunday, March 22, 2009. Some little girls who are not too old to listen to stories, whose mother lived in Wilkes-Barre when the cows found good pasture in the upper part of Franklin street, wish me to tell them something about Wilkes-Barre, the capital of Luzerne. Sterling, then a tutor in Princeton College, I had letters to Rev. Mrs Chester Butler, Mrs. To whom the people of Wilkes-Barre are larg.

Monday, April 27, 2009.

Thursday, June 11, 2009. Account of Flood of 1865. The air was soft and springlike, the frogs piped in the waters and the blue bird carrolled in the woods and increased activity was visible everywhere in preparation for April changes and the spring trade. The warm south wind of Thursday hardly occasioned a thought as the snow was gone in the valley and the spring air was so delightful. Reaching River street we found the flood up to the corner of the pavement a.

Monday, April 27, 2009. This was the last large fire in which the old hand pumps were used to any extent. as in 1871 the Town Council was presented with a steam fire engine and the old hand machines were relegated to the rear.