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How Warrior Run began
When was Warrior Run founded?
1895
Warrior Run dates its founding to 1895 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1900.
First census: 965 in 19002020 census: 527131 years
The first settlers of Warrior Run were Connecticut natives Elisha and Anna Blackman and their young children, Henry and Ebenezer. In 1791, they cleared trees and built a log cabin. For many years after, their land was the only cleared area beyond the Middle Road.
Coal mining was the chief industry in the region. In 1864, the Warrior Run Mining Company was organized; it reopened the old Holland and Hillman mine. The company built a breaker at the foot of the mountain; it opened in 1867.
Passages that mention Warrior Run, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A history of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania1909 · page 168Read the page →
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i68 Warrior Run — The connection of Warrior Run with Sugar Notch Borough has been referred to in the sketch of the latter. Warrior Run became a separate borough on January 25, 1895, under that name, with Peely as the post office address. In 1900 the population of Warrior Run was 965 ; in 1910 it was 1,251, and in 1920 the borough has 1,387 inhabitants.
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stations within it. On this road there are six passenger trains each way — up and down — per day. The Nanticoke railroad runs through this borough from end to end with a station at Plumbton called Warrior Run, supposed to be so named because the station on the Lehigh Valley road near by is called by that name. The station at Sugar Notch is called by the name of Sugar Notch. Sugar Notch borough is bounded on the north by a line six hundred feet north of the Nanticoke R. R., east by the cross-road at the old Gar-
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mountain is about thirteen miles, but across, the shortest distance is about three miles. About twelve miles of the L. V. R. R. is within the ancient boundaries of Hanover township. It has a passenger station at Plumbton called Warrior Run, named after the Warrior Run Mines, a half mile south of it by the wagon road. It has a station at Sugar Notch, and there also is the dispatcher's office for the distribution of coal cars to the several mines, and for the run-
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Warrior Run, 1891 to 1930
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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