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Kingston, PA - History
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Welcome to the Kingston Home page. The Kingston Home page provides as much information as possible on Kingston. Knowing Kingston’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kingston’s Home page, you will also find Kingston’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Kingston has a population of 12859. 47% of Kingston’s inhabitants are Male, and 53 are female. 38.7% of Kingston is married and 48.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $126,931, and the average rent is $826. Household median income in Kingston is $49,888, and the individual median income is $27,978. Kingston’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.4%), Black(5.6%), Hispanic(4.7%), Multiple(3.5%), Asian(1.2%), Other(0.2%), Native(0.1%).
The community has a rich history in American education. It is said that the first public school in Pennsylvania was erected in Kingston (in the 1770s). The borough is also home to the Upper School of Wyoming Seminary, a prestigious college preparatory school founded in 1844. During the first year, it enrolled 31 students (17 boys and 14 girls).
Today, Wyoming Seminary's historic campus hosts roughly 450 students. Kingston witnessed a population boom after the construction and operation of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad. It was incorporated as a borough on November 23, 1857. The borough is named after Kingston, Rhode Island. The first election for the community was held on December 15, 1857.
Ruben Jones was elected burgess and justice of the peace. Some of the first council members elected included Bestor Payne, Marshall G. Whitney, Reuben Marcy, Thomas Pringle, and Richard Hutching.In 1923, the Kingston Armory was built. On September 11, 1950, 33 guardsmen from the 109th Field Artillery Regiment were killed in a train accident near Coshocton, Ohio.
In the following days, the dead were moved to the Kingston Armory, where the remains were relinquished to the grief-stricken families.Coal mining was a chief industry in and around Kingston prior to the Knox Mine Disaster. The 1959 tragedy essentially shut down the mining industry in and around the borough.
In June 1972, Kingston was devastated by the flooding of Hurricane Agnes. The hurricane wreaked havoc on Kingston and neighboring Wilkes-Barre, causing a state of emergency. The natural disaster earned national attention and a visit from President Richard Nixon, who recruited Wyoming Seminary graduate Frank Carlucci (Nixon's head of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) as a point man to oversee flood recovery efforts.
After the flood, Kingston adopted a home rule charter. It became effective in January 1976.
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