History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . ing, erected at the northern endof the River Common, near the Luzerne CountjJail. The jail was erected hi 1869. It is anexpensive and substantial building of stone andbrick. The old court-house was torn down in1909. Matches Friction matches are a comparatively moderninvention. They were first made in the UnitedStates in 1836 by L. C. Alhu, of Springfield,Mass. Before this time a chimsv form of match Scenery and History of WyomingWritten by E. I. Wolfe. Various Indian villages were located here asrecently a
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . ing, erected at the northern endof the River Common, near the Luzerne CountjJail. The jail was erected hi 1869. It is anexpensive and substantial building of stone andbrick. The old court-house was torn down in1909. Matches Friction matches are a comparatively moderninvention. They were first made in the UnitedStates in 1836 by L. C. Alhu, of Springfield,Mass. Before this time a chimsv form of match Scenery and History of WyomingWritten by E. I. Wolfe. Various Indian villages were located here asrecently as one hundred and fifty years of the most important are known to havebeen at Forty Fort and at Firwood, SouthWilkes-Barre. Aside from a few handfuls ofrelics, almost the only remaining vestige of theinhaljitants here at that time, appears in theword Wyoming. The first white settlers here found an oval-shaped embankment resembling the work ofthe Mound Builders of the Ohio ^^alley, andlocated a few rods northwest of where the D. W. Depot at Kingston now stands. This and. THE SECOND COURT-liULSE IN LUZERNE COUNTY, 1804.(Courtesy of Wyoming Historical Society) -was imported from France, which had to bedipped into a bottle of sulphuric acid before itwas lighted. This took a great deal of time and trouble,and Allin, seeing the necessity of frictionmatches set about to make them, neglected to patent them, however, and onfinally applying for a patent, found that a mannamed Phillips, who was a peddler, had dis-covered through a third person the secret ofmaking the matches and had already obtaineda patent. Allin, though the real inventor, wasforced to become a mere manufacturer underanother mans patent. other similar mounds leave little doubt thatat least two races before our own have foundand occupied Fair Wyoming. But thoseearlier people, who may have been prosperousand powerful here many years ago, have left usnot even a word to remember them by. Of the abo
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