Tag: Nanticoke

Nanticoke is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,465 at the 2010 census.
The name Nanticoke was derived from Nantego, the Indian tidewater people who moved here when their Maryland lands were spoiled for hunting by the colonial settlement in 1608.
Nanticoke was incorporated as a village in 1830; Nanticoke was chartered by the Pennsylvania Legislature as a borough on January 31, 1874.
Nanticoke experienced its greatest increase in population between 1917 and 1925 and qualified to become a Third Class City. The citizens voted in the fall of 1924 to form a city government, and elections were held the following year. The new city government consisted of a Mayor and four Councilmen who took office in January 1926, which was the official date of becoming a Third Class City.
Samuel H. Kress opened his first store, which grew into the national S. H. Kress & Co. chain, in Nanticoke.
The Concrete City, built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western…