Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Montrose, PA

Montrose is a borough in the Endless Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania and the county seat of Susquehanna County.

The first non-Indigenous settler arrived in 1800 — Revolutionary War officer Captain Bartlett Hinds, who came from Long Island, New York, with his stepson Isaac Post.

Montrose was laid out in 1812, its first courthouse was built in 1813, and it was incorporated as a borough from part of Bridgewater Township on March 29, 1824.

Montrose was named after the town of Montrose in Scotland, a name chosen by Captain Hinds and Dr. Robert H. Rose.

Montrose was deliberately built to look like a New England village, with colonial-style houses and churches around a courthouse green, because most of its settlers came from the Connecticut River Valley.

Montrose played a significant role on the Underground Railroad's Northern Trail: of the 82 Underground Railroad agents identified in the region, 21 came from Susquehanna County, and Montrose was its hub.

Montrose's nickname is 'Quarry Town' — the area is famous for its bluestone quarries, and a type of rock indigenous to the area is called blue stone.

The 2020 census counted 1,290 people in Montrose, down from a peak of 2,363 in 1960; the 2010 census counted 754 households in the borough.

Four Montrose properties are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Susquehanna County Courthouse Complex, the Silver Lake Bank, and the Sylvanus Mulford House, and the Montrose Historic District was added in 2011.

Montrose sits about 1,400 feet above sea level and has a snowy continental climate, averaging about 83 inches of snow a year according to NOAA climate normals.