CARBONDALE

carbondale, a city of lackawanna county, pennsylvania, u.s.a., on the lackawanna river, 16 m. n.e. of scranton. pop. (1890) 10,833; (1900) 13,536, of whom 2553 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 17,040. carbondale is served by the erie, the delaware & hudson (which has machine shops here), and the new york, ontario & western railways. the city lies near the upper end of the lackawanna valley, and the scenery of the surrounding mountains makes it a summer resort of some importance. it has a public library, a small park, an emergency hospital and the carbondale city private hospital. carbondale is situated in one of the richest anthracite coal regions of the state, and its principal interest is in coal. among its manufactures are foundry and machine shop products, sheet-iron, silk, glass, thermometers and hydrometers, bobbins and refrigerating machines. the value of the city's factory products increased from $1,146,181 in 1900 to $2,315,695 in 1905, or 102%. the settlement of the place began in 1824 with the opening of the coal mines, and carbondale was chartered as a city in 1851.