Scranton is the County Seat and largest city of Lackawanna County. It is also the sole city to be classified as a second class A city.
The United States’ first streetcars powered by electricity began operation in Scranton in 1886, giving the city the nickname of the “Electric City”.
Nay Aug Park is registered as a National Natural Landmark and the city’s largest park providing walking trails, two playgrounds and Olympic-sized pools, a museum, waterfalls and the David Wenzel Tree House and Paul Kanjorski Bridge (photo to the left).
Scranton is well known in pop culture as the location of the hugely popular NBC Series, The Office, which averaged 7 million viewers per season and won five Emmy Awards!
