Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Factoryville, PA

Factoryville is a borough in Wyoming County in northeastern Pennsylvania, about 16 miles northwest of Scranton along the Lackawanna Trail (Route 11).

Factoryville's first settlers arrived around 1800 from Rhode Island, led by Captain Robert Reynolds and Stephen Capwell.

Factoryville got its name from a woolen factory built near the original town site, where people once brought wool from miles around to be woven into cloth — though no factories remain in the borough today, the name stuck.

Factoryville was founded in 1824 and had a population of roughly 1,150 at the 2020 census.

Factoryville is the birthplace of Christy Mathewson, the Hall of Fame pitcher who was born there on August 12, 1880, won 373 games for the New York Giants, and was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.

Factoryville celebrates its most famous son every year with Christy Mathewson Day, a weekend festival with a 5K run, a parade, and events at Christy Mathewson Park.

Factoryville is home to much of the campus of Keystone College, which began in 1868 as Keystone Academy — at the time the only high school between Binghamton, New York, and Scranton, Pennsylvania — and adopted the Keystone College name in 1995.

Factoryville's Keystone College enrolls approximately 1,200 students, roughly the same number of people as live in the borough itself.

Factoryville has a median resident age of only about 21 years, one of the youngest profiles in Pennsylvania, because so many of its residents are college students.

Factoryville students attend the Lackawanna Trail School District.