Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Carbondale, PA

Carbondale is a city in the upper Lackawanna Valley of Lackawanna County, about 20 miles northeast of Scranton, and is known as the 'Pioneer City.'

Carbondale was founded by Philadelphia brothers William and Maurice Wurts, pioneers in developing the region's anthracite coal, who laid out the town in the 1820s; its name combines 'carbon' (coal) with 'dale' (valley).

In June 1831, the first underground anthracite coal mine in the United States was opened in Carbondale near Seventh Avenue.

The Wurts brothers' Delaware and Hudson Canal Company completed a 108-mile canal from Honesdale to Kingston, New York, by 1828, and its gravity railroad began hauling Carbondale coal in 1829.

Carbondale was chartered as a city on March 15, 1851, making it the oldest city in Lackawanna County and the fourth-oldest city in Pennsylvania, after only Philadelphia, Lancaster, and York.

Carbondale originally developed in Luzerne County and only became part of Lackawanna County when that county was created in 1878.

The 2020 census counted 8,828 people in Carbondale, living in roughly 3,751 households averaging about 2.28 people each.

Coal mining remained Carbondale's chief industry until the late 1940s and early 1950s, when light manufacturing took over as the community's economic base.

Before the Wurts brothers arrived, the Carbondale area was a sparsely settled mountain locality known at times as Ragged Island and Barrendale, with its first permanent farm established in 1802.

Students in the city attend Carbondale Elementary School and Carbondale Area Junior/Senior High School.