Diamond Shaft
Diamond Shaft is a quarry in City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Diamond Shaft is situated nearby to the bus station Lackawanna Transit Center, as well as near Electric City Trolley Museum.- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Address: PA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Electric City Trolley Museum and St. Peter’s Cathedral.
Electric City Trolley Museum
Museum
Photo: Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Electric City Trolley Museum is a transport museum located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, next to the Steamtown National Historic Site. The museum displays and operates restored trolleys and interurbans on former lines of the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, which are now owned by the government of Lackawanna County and operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad. Electric City Trolley Museum is situated 2,900 feet south of Diamond Shaft.
St. Peter’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Cjseliga, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Peter's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral at 315 Wyoming Avenue in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton. St. Peter’s Cathedral is situated 3,500 feet southeast of Diamond Shaft.
Lackawanna Transit Center
Bus station
Lackawanna Transit Center is the main bus station and a proposed train station in Scranton, Pennsylvania, operated by the County of Lackawanna Transit System. Lackawanna Transit Center is situated 2,700 feet south of Diamond Shaft.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scranton and Dunmore.
Scranton
Photo: Vasiliymeshko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scranton is a city in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is near Wilkes-Barre, and is the seventh most populous city in the state. Today, it is perhaps best known as the setting of the hit TV show "The Office" and the birthplace of Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States.
Dunmore
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunmore is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjoining Scranton. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and was settled in 1835 and incorporated in 1862.
Throop
Village
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Throop is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjoining Scranton. Formerly, coal mining and silk manufacturing provided employment for the people of Throop, who numbered 2,204 in 1900 and 5,133 in 1910. Throop is situated 4 miles northeast of Diamond Shaft.
Diamond Shaft
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.41759° or 41° 25′ 3″ northLongitude
-75.67239° or 75° 40′ 21″ westElevation
735 feet (224 metres)Open location code
87H6C89H+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 368990687OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
“Diamond Shaft” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Diamond Shaft”
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