Peckville, Pennsylvania

Peckville is a village in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, roughly 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Scranton. The governing borough of Peckville is Blakely.[1]

Peckville was named for Samuel Peck, who moved to northeastern Pennsylvania from Massachusetts in 1831, and built a saw and grist mill at the site of the current village. His son John D. Peck was a bank president in Peckville. In the early 1900s, Peckville had a weekly newspaper, The Peckville Journal, a public school, and the Peckville National Bank.[2][3]

  1. ^ Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania. 1911. pp. 972–975.
  2. ^ Hitchcock, Frederick Lyman (1914). History of Scranton and Its People. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 349–351, 418–420.
  3. ^ Murphy, Thomas F. (1928). Jubilee History: Commemorative of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Creation of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania ... Historical Publishing Company. p. 464.