Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania

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Now an upscale suburb of Scranton: settled following the Revolutionary war by William Clark, a veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill who received, as payment for his military service, eight-hundred acres of Pennsylvania land from Congress. Due to disputes between Pennsylvania and Connecticut over the area of land that is now northern Pennsylvania, the land deed issued to Clark was deemed invalid by the Luzerne County land grant office. Clark had no choice but to pay for the land himself. In March of 1799, Clark and his three sons moved into a log cabin in the Abington wilderness, located on what is currently the Clarks Green cemetery.

The village of Clarks Summit and an adjacent tract of land were incorporated into the Borough of Clarks Summit on August, 30, 1911


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