CARBONDALE  , a

city of Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Lackawanna river, 16 m . N.E. of Scranton . Pop . (1890) 10,833; (1900) 13,536, of whom 2553 were foreign- born; (1910 census) 17,040 . Carbondale is served by the Erie, the Delaware & Hudson (which has machine shops here), and the New York, Ontario & Western railways . The city lies near the upper end of the Lackawanna valley, and the scenery of the surrounding mountains makes it a summer resort of some importance . It has a public library, a small park, an emergency hospital and the Carbondale city private hospital . Carbondale is situated in one of the richest anthracite coal regions of the state, and its principal interest is in coal . Among its manufactures are foundry and machine shop products, sheet-iron, silk, glass, thermometers and hydrometers, bobbins and refrigerating machines . The value of the city's factory products increased from $1,146,181 in 1900 to $2,315,695 in 1905, or 102% . The settlement of the place began in 1824 with the opening of the coal mines, and Carbondale was chartered as a city in 1851 .