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What is the GPHS mission? What are the GPHS goals?

Senior “Revealer” Staff at #Pittston High 1929-1930

GPHS Suspends Meetings, Remains Active During Covid-19 Pandemic

#Pittston Water Supply #History – Charles McCarthy Collection

Early River Crossing #History Charles McCarthy Collection

Purchase a Special License Plate or #Pittston #DVD

What is the GPHS mission? What are the GPHS goals?

Our mission is to discover, collect, study, organize, preserve and display the history of Greater Pittston and to make that history available to the general public,...

Thank Our Sponsors!

We are a non-profit organization that relies on the hard work of our volunteers and can only thrive on the generosity of our community. Becoming...

Senior “Revealer” Staff at #Pittston High 1929-1930

A look back in time 90 years. Photo of the Senior “Revealer” Staff at Pittston High, 1929-1930 from a Sunday Dispatch April 19, 1970 newsprint...

GPHS Suspends Meetings, Remains Active During Covid-19 Pandemic

The Greater Pittston Historical Society has suspended all their meetings and featured speakers for the foreseeable future, due to Covid-19, so that people may maintain...

#Pittston Water Supply #History – Charles McCarthy Collection

This article starts in the 1800’s and then moves as far as the very early twentieth century. It talks about trenches dug in the area,...

Early River Crossing #History Charles McCarthy Collection

Another interesting article from Mr. McCarthy on how early settlers crossed the river, beginning in the 1780’s. The article continues through the colonial period and...

#Jenkins Township #History

1976 newsprint clipping from the Sunday Dispatch Bicentennial Edition. The first set of clipping covers general Jenkins Township history from the late 1700’s to the...

Wrapped Up In #Pittston #History

It’s a wrap: Leadership Wilkes-Barre wraps downtown electrical boxes with historical photos The Leadership Wilkes-Barre Group, known as “Back to the Future: Pittston Edition,” has...

Purchase a Special License Plate or #Pittston #DVD

If interested in purchasing either of these items please send an email to GreaterPittstonHistory@gmail.com. Please remember to include the item(s) you are interested in and ...

“For The Least of Them” Play, Jan 19

January 19th, 2017 “For The Least of Them” Play – Thursday 7:00 pm at King’s College Burke Auditorium, McGowan Business School (133 No. River Street, Wilkes-Barre) The Annual Msgr. John J. Curran Event: “For the Least of Them,” is a one-act, one-person play about the life of and times of…

Oral History:Purpose & Project discussion Jan 25

January 25, “Oral History in Northeastern Pennsylvania: Purposes and Projects” – A discussion on the topic Wednesday at 7:00 pm. Discussants will be Lucia Daley, Ron Faraday, Melissa Meade, Noreen O’Connor, F. Charles Petrillo, Mary Policare, Robert Wolensky. The event will be held at the McGowan Room of the…

#Pittston Area #Mining #Disaster Discussion Jan 28

January 28, “Pittston-area Mining Disasters: Knight Shaft (1871), Eagle Shaft (1871), Twin Shaft (1896), and Knox (1959)” – Saturday JAN 28 at 7 pm. A round table discussion on the topic will take place at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church basement, 35 Williams St., Pittston Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/380546245613628/

New Business members

WE are happy to welcome two new business members to the historical society! Odd Fellows Thistle Lodge #512 and Napoli Pizza, both businesses are in downtown Pittston. Thank you for all your support! Please remember all our business members, especially during this holiday season!

Our Town-WVIA meeting

The first meeting on Nov 3 went very well! The second meeting is Thursday, November 10 at 6:30 pm and we’ll be meeting at the Pittston Memorial Library. Even if you didn’t make the first meeting, everyone is welcome to join in. WVIA hopes to air the Pittston episode on…

Our Town- WVIA Series

The Greater Pittston Historical Society and WVIA are hosting a meeting for anyone who wants to participate in the OUR TOWN -PITTSTON series. The meeting is free & open to the public. Thursday, November 3 , 6:30 PM at the Pittston Memorial Library. This is a community based project for…