Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near North Jessup Jessup, PA

Jessup is a borough on the slope of the Moosic Mountains in Lackawanna County's Lackawanna Valley, about ten miles northeast of Scranton.

It was settled in 1849 and incorporated in December 1876 as the Borough of Winton, taking its first name from the village of Winton in old Blakely Township.

When Lackawanna County was created in 1878, the borough moved from Luzerne County into the new county.

In the 1960s the borough renamed itself Jessup — the larger of the two villages it contained — in honor of Judge William Huntting Jessup of Montrose.

Anthracite coal mines opened around Jessup in the early 1890s, drawing waves of European immigrants to the booming coal fields.

Jessup had 4,520 residents at the 2020 census, down from 4,676 in 2010, when the borough counted 2,007 households.

Jessup students attend the Mid Valley School District.

Italian ancestry is the borough's largest, claimed by about 32 percent of residents, a legacy of the immigrants who came for the mines.

Jessup is famous for St. Ubaldo Day, the 'Race of the Saints,' brought by immigrants from Gubbio, Italy, in 1909: three teams race through the streets carrying wooden pillars weighing some 450 to 500 pounds, topped with statues of Saints Ubaldo, George and Anthony.

Jessup and Gubbio are sister cities, and they are the only two places in the world that hold the Festa dei Ceri celebration, which in Gubbio dates to 1160; Jessup's version anchors Memorial Day weekend.