Roaring Brook

Roaring Brook is a stream in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Roaring Brook is situated nearby to the hamlet Hyde Park, as well as near the neighborhood Minooka.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Marketplace at Steamtown and Electric City Trolley Museum.

The Marketplace at Steamtown

Shopping center

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Marketplace at Steamtown is a shopping mall in Scranton, Pennsylvania. United States. It was conceived in the mid-1980s as the keystone of downtown revitalization, though the project was not completed until 1993.

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.

Steamtown National Historic Site

Protected area

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Steamtown National Historic Site is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on 62.48 acres in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.

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 4½ miles northeast of Roaring Brook.

Roaring Brook

Type: Stream
Also known as: “Roaring Branch Creek” and “Roaring Creek”
Category: body of water
Location: Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.40202° or 41° 24′ 7″ north

Longitude

-75.67325° or 75° 40′ 24″ west

Elevation

659 feet (201 metres)

Open location code

87H6C82G+RP

GeoNames ID

5208516

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