DUNMORE  , a

borough of Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., adjoining Scranton on the N.E. and about 20 M . N.E. of Wilkesbarre . Pop . (189o) 8315; (Igloo) 12,583, of whom 3103 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 17,615 . It is served by the Erie, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, and the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley (electric) railways . Its chief industry is the mining of anthracite coal; the principal establishments are railway repair shops, which in 1905 gave employment to 48.9% of all wage-earners engaged in manufacturing . Among the borough's manufactures are stoves and furnaces, malt liquors and silk . Dunmore is the seat of the state oral school for the deaf . The town was first settled in 1783 and was incorporated in 1862 . Its growth was accelerated by the establishment here, in 1863, of the shops of the railway from Pittston to Hawley built in 1849—1850 by the Pennsylvania Coal Company . Dunmore became a station of the Scranton post office in 1902 .